By way of Balance

I sometimes despair, the world is full of awful incidences and examples of horrible Racists carryings on, and as you say, this doesn’t help at all.

 

She`s the shi thouse who got early release int she.

 

I really despair with some folk!
How racist do you have to be to see a cute monkey having connotations with black people?
There are racists on all sides of the divide and stuff like this certainly doesn't help

 

She put lives at risk with her driving, so most people will have stopped listening to her views.

 

I wonder if we’ll see any posts in support/defending this in the same spirit as Govt Ministers have been defended. In other words, she’s one of ours, I voted for them, therefore It must be defended.

 

I can see why she has made that link, and why she questioned it. Especially this day in age where anything and everything can be questioned.

But in all honesty, I have seen those adverts for years, and never once thought about racism or put it in the context of what she has done.

I just don't know what's what anymore, so if I just ignore it, and carry on, am I know being ignorant of it... Dunno

 

There's a big còck on the Cornflakes packet. Very misleading.

 

also just remembered that the monkey is on the white chocolate Coco Pops its even dafter

 

Well Robertsons jam golly has gone now.

 

Im guessing she means the elves by her 'white boys' term. Not even aimed at being human.

 

I don’t think it’s racist, but I can see that back in the 60s when they were marketing Coco Pops, they wanted a brown coloured mascot for it and they wouldn’t have even considered a black child. Is it wrong that they chose a monkey? No. And if they took the same mascot as Rice Krispies and painted them black, I’m sure now they would get accused of blackface.

But it does show something that they chose a brown animal, rather than a human-like brown mascot. I don’t know what it shows, but I do think it shows something...

However, Snap Crackle and Pop are elves not human children, so I think it all just falls apart at that fact.

 

I agree with everything you say. I did open my post by saying I don’t think it’s racist.

My first thought on opening this thread was “how ******* ridiculous” but then I stopped and pictured the time where they were designing coco pops and coming up with the brown mascot. Not a brown version of the Rice Krispies elves, but a monkey. Again, I don’t think it’s racist, but I do think it shows something that they went to a money in that situation. Again. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it.

 

Also the white chocolate coco pops which happen to be white in colour also use the same Monkey as the mascot. No racist slant on this at all its just a case of someone trying to take offence at something for the sake of it.

God knows what she will do when she finds out there is a place called Blackpool.

 

Been buying cornflakes for years and have been sadly disappointed.

 

You, I or other (white) people might not claim that pictures of monkeys are racist, but - monkey chanting, throwing bananas on the pitch, etc are also seen by us as racist. Danny Baker had to quit the BBC for posting a social media picture of a chimpanzee for the birth of Prince Archie.

There could be an argument that if you have been racistly called a monkey that seeing a monkey *could* have racist undertones.

 

I can see that but not sure she can whilst on her crusade to gain more publicity.

 

calling a black person a monkey or throwing a banana at someone is indeed a racist act.

however having a cartoon monkey as a mascot for your breakfast cereal isn't. if using a monkey image in any circumstance is deemed racist then we will have to ban an awful lot of stuff. Curious george for one will be a total no no and that Cadburys advert with the gorilla playing the drums will have to be deleted from the internet fully.

comparing someone physically calling another person a monkey to a brand using a monkey as a mascot is totally different. One is an illegal act the other isn't.