Wallgreens - one on America's hugely sucessful meglo-marts has decided to pull the hot selling special edition Barak Obama Chi product from it's shelves following the protests of a select few individuals. Once again, as predicted in my earlier posts, some Americans' hyper-sensitivity to this president borders on ridiculous. So thin skinned are these people, the actual shade of pigmentation matters less than the lack of big picture thinking displayed in the omnipresent outcries of racism where none exists.
Sure, as in all matters, the eye of the beholder is the sticking point. As a white - 2nd generation Canadian I have been subjected to repeated, insulting advertising produced by agencies and broadcast by networks fearful of offending anyone but the one gender and race deemed worthy of abuse. Lacking any organization, lobby or cultural permission to voice outrage over such issues, it has become impossible to find more than a handful of spots that treat all people the same - or at least spread out the role of dupe, dunce and slob around a little.
So either it's time to do something - make the whiners prove their point or justify a hypocritic foundation to their stance. It's been going on for years - it's getting worse - and the many homes with children growing up without the presence of a positive male role model get instead this racist, sexist garbage used to sell tooth whitener and Lincoln Navigators to insecure female viewers.
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