Kellogg’s apologizes for lone brown corn pop on cereal box

[Aztechnology]

It's like where's Waldo. But instead you find the racism!

 

[Aomber]

Well that sure doesn't stick out like a sore thumb

 

[mentallyinept]

I went to the grocery store after work to get some essentials... and decided to check the box in my store...

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[NLCPRESIDENT]

Or it could have been a minority artist that thought "The only character not wearing a ninja outfit and showing any skin is the janitor, I'm gonna use this opportunity to make him dark skinned like me" and it just went horribly, horribly wrong.

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Lmao. I guess you could be right.
That is a good way of looking at it.. ok.

ResetEra ftw

 

[Kelsdesu]

Motherfuckers out here sneak dissin and shit.

 

[tintskuecha]

lmao they could have many any of them brown but chose the janitor

 

[Budi]

Unlike with the Red Cross pool safety poster, I can't imagine how this WASN'T intentional. I'm not saying that everyone who saw this understood the implications and let it slide. But the person who made it had to know what they were doing. What would be the reasoning for just the janitor to be brown?

 

[aerie]

Wow! That was worse than i had expected.

 

[ROBOKITTYZILLA]

That's pretty bad...

 

[Deleted member 2226]

Unlike with the Red Cross pool safety poster, I can't imagine how this WASN'T intentional. I'm not saying that everyone who saw this understood the implications and let it slide. But the person who made it had to know what they were doing. What would be the reasoning for just the janitor to be brown?

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Nah, it could be as simple as the person who drew it associates dark-skinned people with janitors, and everyone else up the chain either had the same association or didn't notice. Can be a textbook example of unexamined unconscious biases.

After all the "white and gold" stuff on the internet, I did have to double-check in Photoshop to make sure that the difference in shade wasn't an illusion; the "brown" corn pop is definitely slightly but clearly darker.