Monday - May 30, 2011

it’s the old race ploy. again.

I read this in the morning paper and thought, what a load of crap.  How can she make a big deal out of this but then I remembered.
Naomi Campbell. Right.  The same self loving women who, when a suitcase was lost by an airline, cursed the airline, started a fight and proceeded to claim that the airline lost her case due to ......  yeah.  RACE! That Naomi Campbell.

Maybe one has to be Negro to feel the offense here. It certainly wasn’t intended, but am I wrong to think she sees something here that honestly doesn’t exist?
She sure does have the “diva” reputation and that’s how I see the advert.  How about you?  Or, are we too white to understand?

Then of course there are the hanger ons coming out of the woodwork. The professional victims, as I see em. I bet most of the ones doing the most shouting feel nothing at all, unless it’s joy to have something to be offended by. A cause to wrap themselves in.
And they are insisting that this little bru-haha be exported to the USA and a boycott of Kraft.
Dream on idiots.  Take a look.

Naomi Campbell’s outrage as ‘racist advert likens her to a chocolate bar’

By RYAN KISIEL

Naomi Campbell is considering taking legal action against Cadbury after claiming a ‘racist’ advertisement compares her to a chocolate bar.

The supermodel said she was shocked and hurt to see her name on billboards and in newspapers next to the Dairy Milk Bliss bar.

Black civil rights groups have urged shoppers to boycott products of Cadbury’s U.S. parent company, Kraft Foods.

And Miss Campbell, who is known for being litigious, said she is currently considering taking ‘every available option’ over the adverts that appeared in a national newspaper last week and in supermarkets, reading, ‘Move over Naomi, there’s a new diva in town’.

She said: ‘I am shocked. It’s upsetting to be described as chocolate, not just for me but for all black women and black people.I do not find any humour in this. It is insulting and hurtful.’

Her mother, Valerie Morris, supported her daughter’s stance, saying: ‘I’m deeply upset by this racist advert.

Do these people think they can insult black people and we just take it? This is the 21st century, not the 1950s. Shame on Cadbury.’

Black rights group Operation Black Vote has called for Cadbury to apologise after receiving dozens of complaints about the advert from members of the public.

Simon Woolley, from the group, said that without an apology, the ‘only recourse black people have is not to buy its chocolate’.

He has written to the American civil rights activists Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to ask them to mobilise the country’s Afro-American population in a boycott of Kraft goods.

Being likened to chocolate was as bad as being called a golliwog for black people, he added.  ‘Racism in the playground starts with black children being called “chocolate bar”.

‘At best, this is insensitive – and at worst it demonstrates Cadbury’s utter disregard for causing offence. Its lack of apology just adds insult to injury.

‘It’s particularly galling because we’ve just had a week that saw the establishment fall over themselves to be close to the Obamas and yet black people are being derided in such an insulting and negative way.’

Lee Jasper, who was senior equalities adviser to Ken Livingstone when he was London’s Mayor, said: ‘This issue is not just about the insult to Naomi Campbell. It’s about how these companies treat black people in general. Part of the problem is that they don’t see it as offensive.’

Kraft Foods said the poster has been removed and there are no plans to repeat it.

A statement read: ‘It was certainly never our intention to cause any offence and the campaign itself is a light-hearted take on the social pretensions of Cadbury Dairy Milk Bliss.’

In all my 74 years, I have never heard a black kid referred to as a chocolate bar. Not even once. There were many other sometimes very accurate discriptions, but not chocolate bar.  I think these folks make things up as they go along.

NAOMI

And THIS is what the fuss is all about. Does she really have a legit case?

The diamonds are a clever touch and she was much criticized at the time if you remember. Now in that case I thought ppl were being a bit touchy and unfair to her. Maybe they should have asked permission to use her name?

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