Costco Removes "Lil Monkey" doll from shelves

[princeofroyalty2]

I'll take a pretty panda.. over a lil monkey any day! hehe

[chinookjumpa]

LOL OMG HAHAHAHA!!!!

[Tetzukai]

A black prseon and a monkey. What a strange coincidence... Fuck off, Costco...

[MephistophelesMyLord]

I'm sure my mother has called me little monkey before,and I'm white. It's just an endearing title for a hyper kid.It's not racist...

[Tetzukai]

@MephistophelesMyLord Black people were and now pertained to a monkey. And you think this was a coincidence? It is racist.

[MephistophelesMyLord]

@Tetzukai

Little children are referred to as monkeys because of their hyper nature.You're choosing to see it as something racist because you're a hateful individual. How do you expect ill feelings between races to heal if you throw the racist and injustice card at something that could very well be an innocent little coincidence? Don't be so quick to assume that things are a negative depiction of a race.You won't gain respect for it.

[Tetzukai]

@MephistophelesMyLord Ironically, stereotypical black people also have a hyper nature. Is that a coincidence, or a cultural, stereotypical fact? I choose in that perspective because it is a cultural truth. You're just running away from such a horrible fact of this shity culture we call North America. If you want to "heal" you have to face it and learn from it. I take it as no one didn't teach you to face your fears to do better or overcome them? It's the same idea.

[Tetzukai]

@Tetzukai n incorrect coincidence? You have to face reality - the world is still racist for hundreds of years, especially for black people in general and you have to right, especially over such an issue like this to imply I am ill-informed. So I will be quick to judge whenever I want because of logic and the realization of the connections so who gives a fuck about respect.

[Tetzukai]

I'm not like those people who would rather be irresponsible, narcissistic, and a typical ill-informed general person than to actually fix the crap. It's that kind of behaviour that stagnates the problem to begin with. A black doll and a monkey when in historical truth that black people were chauvinistically connected to monkeys and feeding such ignorant crap to your black or even part-black children.

[Tetzukai]

The same way as this bullshit that their "nappy" hair makes them disgusting to the point that they are inhuman. Disgusting, And I don't want to even fathom why you think the opposite.

[MephistophelesMyLord]

@Tetzukai

Considering that you deny at all that this incident may have just been pure coincidence,I think you are the few that cause the problem to stagnate. Here's an idea for you to chew on: Africa is home to primates. If you ask anyone where a monkey would be located,they would say Africa. You have never once thought that maybe the black girl dressed as a monkey was celebrating where she came from?Same with the Chinese doll in a panda suit.

[Tetzukai]

@MephistophelesMyLord Prove that it is, you probably just going to get lies. You know what they say about white chauvinists lying to cover their ass and it isn't rare. Believe me. But you seem to think that racist notion I made is non-existent. Argue about that also. I don't cause the problem - the problem is the people running from the problem when people like me try to show it and argue it with them. Do you think that is a coincidence?

[Tetzukai]

@Tetzukai How could you when it's a fact that racists who are confronted with the problem usually make ignorant states that are plainly illogical about a race of people and get personal or run from it. All that they are is dumbasses, anyway with no substance. I am asking you to acknowledge that racist phrase, don't compare it to a geographical excuse that has nothing to do with what I am talking.

[Tetzukai]

@Tetzukai A monkey in Africa - yes that proves a point somehow to what I am saying? But if you want to point out an African culture that does, I would love to see that, but we're talking about North American perspectives and how it affected other people negatively. It is the West that did it afterall.

[MephistophelesMyLord]

@Tetzukai

Lol,I live in a community with a substantial amount of Black folks living in it,and I have not once heard the stereotype that blacks are hyper.Even when I used to live in a truly racist Arizonan community who shunned black people,I have never once heard the stereotype that blacks are hyper. I think you're just making stuff up now to cause a feud. America has come long strides in terms of accepting people,look at our president! You're not helping heal this rift with accusation.

[Tetzukai]

@MephistophelesMyLord But that doesn't mean it's not a stereotype, or atleast cultural conditioned. People judge them like that, that's the point and I am not making anything up; I'm just trying to explain it. You can say America has come a long way, but you have to face the fact that not everything has changed since the beginning of that country, particularly racism.

[Tetzukai]

@Tetzukai Take a look at the connections, especially refering to black Americans, and using Obama is one of them (ever heard of the token black notion?) They are not accusations, they are general facts.

[MephistophelesMyLord]

@Tetzukai

But it's not a stereotype! Blacks aren't referred to as being hyper by anyone! A lot of people are still racist,but you can't blame a black child in a monkey doll as racist. Now,If someone approaches you and calls you nappy-headed or automatically assumes you speak ebonics and commit thievery,that would be a racist stereotype.

[Tetzukai]

@MephistophelesMyLord If it isn't a stereotype then I am pretty sure black people would be less refered to as such, especially out of racist behaviour, the cultural, european-ish conotatives about a monkey, and the bad stereotypes black people, in general are described as in connection to those conotatives. I'm just arguing what's there and back, guy. It's being self-aware of your enviroment. And speaking of ebonics, ebonics stereotypically have negative descriptions about general black people.

[Tetzukai]

@Tetzukai And I am not blaming the black doll, where did I said I was? Stereotypes, negative conditions on a populace, or whatever word in relation, the fact remains black people in general are culturally and usually seen as something disgusting. And you here imply it is inconsistent is apart of the problem the face when liberating themselves from racism.

[floridalover04]

My sister works for Costco and for EVERYONE'S info the doll came in 3 nationalisties: African American, Latina, and White. AND so did the pretty panda. Also it was removed from the shelves July 21, after it was put on the shelves on the 20th. Lord forbid we stop stepping on eggshells so we don't offened anyone. Get over yourselves! IT WAS A DAM*ED DOLL!!!!!! "Wah wah wah. Since you didn't walk on eggshells for me now you owe me." Get your information, don't rely on a chain e-mail!!