unintentional racist depiction in a birthday card?

[sylvar]

Honi soit qui mal y pense. It was just my demented perception.

Comments

[pappy74.livejournal.com]

Hmm... what am I missing? What makes that racist?

[loucheroo.livejournal.com]

yeah, that ^^^^^^^^

I don't get why it's racist?

[tiger-stripes.livejournal.com]

+1. Looks like targeted marketing more than anything.

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of the old trope of a Black woman's mouth being drawn as a wide oval with thick lips.

[knobody.livejournal.com]

you see all that up there, skywise? strange, i just see cake.

[segnbora.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have thought of that at all. Of course, I'm not a member of the possible sterotyped group.

Maybe if it were chocolate cake.

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

you're projecting or hypersensitive.

[fizzgig-bites.livejournal.com]

Nah, cards have gotten so specialized that there are only one or two that work and there seems to no generics when I look. No racism there except that the card goes to a dark skinned girl.

[cadrys.livejournal.com]

Only to the hypersensitized offended-at-everything crowd.

[ximinez]

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.