Another Depressing Local Story
And this one's getting national attention. What a horrible embarrassment.
Mulligan's selling shirts with 'Curious George' picture
By CHRISTIAN BOONE - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - 05/13/08
Marietta tavern owner Mike Norman says the T-shirts he's peddling, featuring cartoon chimp Curious George peeling a banana, with "Obama in '08" scrolled underneath, are "cute." But to a coalition of critics, the shirts are an insulting exploitation of racial stereotypes from generations past.
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3 comments:
But don't ya know...racism is dead in this day and age.
If I were the chair of the Muscular Distrophy Assoc., I'd pass up on money raised this way...good grief!
Sick.
That is seriously beyond ridiculous, and makes me angry, and sad, and angry again that I have to share my country with people who would make such a shirt and have the audacity to argue that it's not offensive.
Sadly, I ate at Mulligan's a couple of times when I lived in ATL. I never will again, though.
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