John Taylor and his wife Donna, who live in North Carolina , in August went in to a COSTCO in Greensboro and could not believe what they saw for sale. As the photos show, the baby doll is being hugged by a monkey and the doll has a cap on its head that says " lil'monkey"! The couple complained and COSTCO immediately pulled the dolls from it's shelves and discontinued the product.
However, the doll is still on sale in Winston and likely in other locations. If you see the doll and are offended, you may call the following number: 800-774-2678
Is this a case of Black's being too sensitive or should the product be removed?
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I'm sorry but sometimes there is no such thing as "too sensitive." Apparently there are some people who are not senstive enough or they wouldn't keep trying our patience like this! Why do we have to keep raising our voices over the same issue? Little Monkey...Really??? If people throughout the nation and the world would understand the hurtful memories these kinds of images evoke for blacks and be sensitive enough to not produce these kinds of products, then we would not have to keep making a fuss about it. I tell you, to be black is to be a full-time history teacher..Somebody should cut us some checks!
@Arionne: Please cut us a check! lol
What I don't understand is how compaines and publications keep letting things like this happen. Even if you didn't mean to be racist, you know that it could be offensive. Why run the risk of offending someone, and then having people demand that you take your product off the market. So you spend thousands of dollars making something in hopes that no one is offended. You can say we are too sensitive...but you are the one that is losing out on money, so why not just watch what you put out there???
Vote with your dollars. If you don't like a product, don't purchase it. If the product does not sell companies will not produce them.
If the doll really offended you, you just wouldn't buy it. "not sensitive enough"..what does that mean. We, black americans, cannot label something as being offended, just because its from our persective. There are countless things we as black americans do that could easily pass for being offensive, especially in music and comedy, and no one says anything.
There are much more bigger issues to overcome, like 45 percent of our mothers have no fathers for their children..for starters..
question is ...is there a white version of the doll? if not then they need to take it off the shelf..also what was the purpose or outcome of creating the doll? what research showed that this would be a great idea?
Jews would have had the entire store shut down if they were offended...im just saying.
There are a lot of issues we should be focusing on, and there is enough of us to focus on all of them. If someone is offended and they speak loud enough...then it will be removed. Sometimes you alone can decide not to purchase something, but that doesn't mean that other's won't. You can say something like my daughter won't watch uncut on BET, but does that mean that she won't sneak and watch it? Does that mean that it should still be on the air as long as you prevent your child from watching it? No it needed to be removed..and it was!
I think what Arionne meant about not being "sensitive enough" is that we allow people to do and say anything they want to us...but other races just don't have it. Do you see the crazy things being said and done to Obama? People feel like they can do it, cause we never say anything. Our children our watching this country act a fool. We aren't sensitve enough.
I feel the need to clarify my thought. Of course, since I am personally offended by the doll, I would not purchase it. That goes without saying. The money has a big voice--think of the Montgomery Bus boycott. However, when I said "not sensitive enough," I was referring to those who created and marketed the doll, who either did not think or care about how the image might affect or offend Blacks, especially our children. I was speaking from an optimistic perspective--one that longs for people to have basic respect and decency for all other people. It is a hope that perhaps all people would have a sensitivity to what hurts others and that we would then refrain from doing those things, especially when one group has repeatedly made a fuss about the offensiveness of a particular act. Now, I do live in the real world, and I know that my optimism is just that--optimism. But hoping for something more from fellow human beings is my right. Articulating that hope is my duty.
@Arionne: Agreed!
They going to get enough of calling us monkeys. Small mindedness will never allow room for growth. They say they call their kids monkeys all the time. Its still not ok we dont call our kids monkeys we get enough of that from other races looking down on us. But they are so ready to sleep with our black men the same ones they are racist against. Which one is it?
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