Hallmark Card Should Be Pulled, But Not Because It's Racist

In a decade and country where political correctness has run amok, the latest example is the NAACP of Los Angeles demanding that Hallmark remove a SPACE-THEMED graduation card from the stores because the voice that says "black hole" pronounces it, to their ears, like "black ho" and of course, that is racist.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/11/naacp-urges-hallmark-pull-racist-card-shelves/#

Now, having listened to the card, I have to agree that it should have been pulled, not because it was racist, because of course it isn't, but because it is just stupid. I thought I was listening to a card for kindergarten kids graduating to go into first grade, not 18 year old kids graduating and ready to go to college. Embarrassing!



Here is what two black women - members of the NAACP - had to say about the card:
http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/ci_15281166

But Verrett and others said Hallmark should issue a formal apology to African-Americans. They also said they found the card in Hallmark stores in Redondo Beach and on the Palos Verdes Peninsula as recently as last week.

Councilwoman Lula Davis-Holmes, who is an NAACP member, said she will probably vote in support of the resolution on Tuesday.

"I'm insulted in the first place because we, as black women, cannot be victimized if, in fact, it says `ho,"' she said. "I think Hallmark owes an apology. If there's an inkling of a doubt, it should be dealt with. People are outraged."

People are certainly outraged....that Hallmark has even destroyed this card.

What about the millions of black rap musicians who call black women hos on a regular basis? Shouldn't these black women's rage be directed towards them, or to the 70% of black women who give birth to illegitimate babies because they want money for the child but don't want the man responsible for that child?

But, as Eric Holder has said, white people in America are afraid to talk race. Hallmark was afraid to tell these people that the card was not racist and they were just being stupid, and so their cult of victimhood is allowed to continue - never mind that it is their own black males who are victimizing them, not greeting cards aimed at kids who have actually managed to graduate from high school.