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[elleng]

1. Surely some do.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

2. The character in the movie is black

I don't think it's a stretch that it's logical one black model should have been included in the ad, do you?

[helpmetohelpyou]

6. statement from target

Prior to the movie’s Dec. 19 release, Target partnered with Renée Ehrlich Kalfus, the costume designer for the new “Annie” movie. In November, the department store began selling clothes inspired by the orphan character’s wardrobe. The collection includes 26 tights, jeans, dresses, shirts and accessories ranging from $4 to $30.

Joshua Thomas, a Target spokesman, noted that the in-store ads actually feature girls of various ethnic backgrounds. The ad for the online store features one black girl and two white girls.

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Since the collection was designed to have a limited-run, it’ll be out of Target stores by the end of this week.

Target says they won’t be apologizing to Quvenzhané Wallis, but they admit they had preliminary conversations about Willis modeling the clothes, but it never materialized

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

9. The protestor in this case is a young biracial girl

Whatever ad she saw, there were no black children in it and she wrote an email complaining. My guess is this will become the outrage dejour more for the FOX News bigots who can't stand anyone of another race speaking out. Good job doing your part though.

[hifiguy]

3. Indeed they do.

I've seen more examples of this right here on DU than I could count.

[upaloopa]

4. Well the latest Annie is not White correct? I am not sure.

It would seem to be a purposeful racist thing to not use the current Annie if you are marketing a product to tie with in the latest movie. I agree with the protestors.

[sakabatou]

5. Kinda like what Shyamalan did in "The Last Airbender."

[Bjorn Against]

7. Well the Washington Times sure does

The Washington Times is a far-right publication, they like to invent outrages. They want you to believe that it is the people that they are writing about that are creating false controversies, but it is them and the type of people who read their publication who are pushing false controversies.

[helpmetohelpyou]

12. You can find the article in the many other papers

http://www.bostonnewstime.com/national/87816-target-customers-call-for-store-to-apologize-to-black-actress-quvenzhan%C3%A9-wallis-over-malicious-use-of-white-models-to-advertise-its-annie-inspired-clothing-range.html







The petition's author

[Bjorn Against]

13. So you now link to an article from the Daily Mail

You do realize that the Daily Mail is another right-wing tabloid I hope, they are owned by the same guy that owns Fox News. Thanks for proving my point that the right-wing is stoking this controversy.

[helpmetohelpyou]

15. How about this one

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/12/30/annie-target-ads_n_6397162.html

[Bjorn Against]

19. That link does not even work for me, but I will say this...

The petition was started by a person who wanted to see a black character from the movie represented by a black girl in the ad. She wrote to target and started a petition on the internet, it was really no big deal, her petition was harming no one. Then the Washington Times and the Daily Mail come around and turn this person's petition into a national news story, but they published it to an audience that they knew would be extremely hostile. While they would never publicly admit it the Washington Times and the Daily Mail know that there are lots of racists that read their publication so they decided to fan the flames of racial controversy.

[roody]

8. It is indicative of the larger problem of racism.

Do you remember when there were no black people on tv? I'm 61 and I remember it well.

[AZ Mike]

10. This is legit.

That is an active decision to change the representation of Annie as a white girl. What is the purpose of that?

[dissentient]

11. The funny thing is the original Annie character was a red headed white girl

it is based on a comic strip called "Little Orphan Annie" that was started back in 1924.

[LanternWaste]

14. I imagine the low hanging fruit even get outraged over nothing more than people getting outraged.

I imagine the low hanging fruit even get outraged over nothing more than people getting outraged-- yet rationalize theirs as mere concern whilst condemning the same in others-- in effect, holding others to a higher standard than they hold themselves to.

[lpbk2713]

17. Is there an echo in here?

[JI7]

18. "low hanging fruit even get outraged over nothing more than people getting outraged. "

Yup

[Kingofalldems]

16. So you link to the Moonie paper.

How did you find out about this? Are you a regular reader?

[Skidmore]

20. You like helping,

don't you? We need to protect the hurt feelings of white folks everywhere.