Mom, not pleased
TheStar.com – News – Racial slur on sofa label stuns family — How much effort does it take to prevent this sort of thing?
When the new chocolate-coloured sofa set was delivered to her Brampton home, Doris Moore was stunned to see packing labels describing the shade as “Nigger-brown.”
She and husband Douglas purchased a sofa, loveseat and chair in dark brown leather last week from Vanaik Furniture and Mattress store on Dundas St. E.
Moore, 30, who describes herself as an African-American born and raised in New York, said it was her 7-year-old daughter who pointed out the label just after delivery men from the Mississauga furniture store left.
“Shes very curious and she started reading the labels,” Moore explained. “She said, `Mommy, what is nig … ger brown? I went over and just couldnt believe my eyes.”
What IS the deal with Ma’ma’s definition: “But it’s a very, very bad word that makes you feel degraded, like you’re a nobody…”
Since when does anyone give a word power like that. It can’t make you feel degraded and like a nobody unless you chose to take it that way! She just made the word a magic word for her daughter. Now she has a word that can MAKE people feel degraded and a nobody. How silly!
I think the tag is outright Engrish, and obviously Chinese. There is very little way that anyone in China can comprehend our black/white emotional thing. Heck, few countries can. It’s unique to the US. This myopic woman can’t see that the manufacturer was only CHEAP (and didn’t hire anyone fluent in English to check the tag) not racist. It’s she that is a racist with her interpretation of the intent.