Afro-styled dish sponges deemed racist
The company Paladone has issued dish washing sponges shaped to look like African-Americans with Afro hairstyles...
The British company Paladone has issued dish washing sponges shaped to look like African-Americans with Afro hairstyles. Some have called the sponges, which caricature soul legend Diana Ross with a brillo pad, offensive and racist. The Daily Mail reports:
A company behind a new range of Afro style washing up sponges has been slammed for being racist.
Campaigners have attacked British makers Paladone for its latest range of dish cleaning products which caricatures black soul legend Diana Ross as having a brillo pad for a hairstyle.
The offending items, which have just gone on sale across the UK, have been likened to reproducing golliwogs or the Black and White Minstrels by reinforcing negative stereotypes.
The Unite Against Fascism general secretary Weyman Bennett said: ‘What are we going to have next, toilet brushes like that?
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