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Originally posted by Venus
"She had designed the fliers to publicize a fund-raising event. She wanted regular people to bid as much as they could to buy dinner and drinks with a local celebrity. In exchange for the purchase, the celebrity would take them to dinner"
What's the matter with that? What do they want her to call this event? Did you notice who the first person to take offense was?
I swear you can't say anything anymore without somebody calling you a racist
Originally posted by junglejake
I think the termanology was poorly chosen.
I don't think the terminology was wrong at all.....I think it's an issue because that black guy made it one
Originally posted by junglejake
This is just sick and wrong. According to the Orlando Sentinel, a Florida city that tried to hold a celebrity slave auction to raise money for a downtown revitalization effort.
Thankfully, it was stopped, but man, talk about let's help our african-american brothers by making fun of one of the darkest things in our great nation...
A Leesburg spokeswoman named Marilyn Davenport printed up fliers promising that the "The Slave you buy (at a Chamber of Commerce breakfast) will provide drinks and dinner!"
T.H. Poole, president emeritus of the local NAACP, said "You raise oppression up to a people who were oppressed for 200 years, and you're going to make a joke out of it? There's a difficulty in viewing how they thought that up," Poole said. "It seems simple. But it's a trouble-maker."
So, yeah, I'm sorry friends, I did give Colonel some new ammo, but this is just wrong, none the less.
Originally posted by Gazrok
That's it ??? I feel somewhat disappointed, hehe....
Originally posted by KrazyJethro
Look, the fact is, is that no one would think a "Holocaust for the Homeless" idea would be a good one. This is purely hypothetical, but I can only assume that they would make a fake work camp to remodel a rundown urban area.
The jews would be running for their lawyers office in 3 secs flat.
The fact is that slavery in the context of America, is such that white people bought, sold, killed, beat, mutilated, and destroied family trees for generations for their own financial asparations.
Flat out. It's not funny, or a joke or anything else and I am as white as they come.
Would it have been so hard to use a different word? NO
So why not? Why use a word that will blatently offend so many people.
It's idiocy