This article that appeared in yesteday’s Toronto Star (via Consumerist) is off topic for us but, I felt compelled to voice my disbelief.
When the new chocolate-coloured sofa set was delivered to her Brampton home, Doris Moore was stunned to see packing labels describing the shade as “Nigger-brown.”
She and husband Douglas purchased a sofa, loveseat and chair in dark brown leather last week from Vanaik Furniture and Mattress store on Dundas St. E.
Moore, 30, who describes herself as an African-American born and raised in New York, said it was her 7-year-old daughter who pointed out the label just after delivery men from the Mississauga furniture store left.
“She’s very curious and she started reading the labels,” Moore explained. “She said, `Mommy, what is nig … ger brown?’ I went over and just couldn’t believe my eyes.”
In this day and age it sickens me that crap like this still happens. But, that wasn’t the only part that really got me wound up. Nope, it is disgusting but, the part that set me off was when I went to bookmark this article with del.icio.us.
It was bad enough that these folks had to endure this nonsense but, to have del.icio.us recommending this as “funny”. That makes me sick. Incidentally I launched the tagging feature three times with the same result.
Rant off.
UPDATE: Wow, I was checking through the referring sites and it turns out that we ended up in CNN’s search…ahead of the actual article from the Toronto Star.
Very cool!
[tags]del.icio.us, Racism, Toronto Star, CNN[/tags]
