FB&C Kid

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[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Hoo boy! They just come out with it, don't they? There's the "it was a different time" type of racism and then there's this kind.

I like those boots, though. Never had the ankles for them, though. Good think I didn't live in that time.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

That is truly nasty.

(I don't even like the boots, myself. Though I would wear that hat and never take it off again.)

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

My initial thought was that the boots were *made from the skins of dead black children*.

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

*shudder* Considering the horrific ad, it's a logical thought.

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

"Lawdy, her shoes are made of Topsy!"

Heinous racism aside, I can't understand why they made the kids such ugly caricatures. They look 35. Surely the ad would be more appealing if they were cute little children?

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

All I can think is that they are actual (white) adults dressed up as kids, that they drew. At least that's what they look like to me. But that makes the whole thing even worse, if anything can.

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

It's horrendous on many levels

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I don't get that either. And at the risk of sounding even MORE insensitive, the girl looks like a burn victim to me.

[kakaze.livejournal.com]

She looks like a demon to me.

I'm going to be looking for her under my bed tonight.

[jocelmeow.livejournal.com]

My guess - from having seen a fair number of terrible representation of non-white people in media over the years - is that the artist had little familiarity with/little experience drawing African-Americans. To be honest, it looks like he probably had little experience drawing children at all.

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

That was my thought. It's like A Modest Proposal but with black kids as clothes.

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, what?

It's like Cruella DeVil decided that stealing and skinning puppies wasn't quite evil enough.

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

*mouth hangs open in astonishment*

OK, so, collecting myself here. The shoes are made from kid leather in different colours. Why there are two distended-featured African American dwarves attempting to showcase said "coloured kids" by sending a fakey mouse in the direction of the stupid shoe-wearing lady is beyond me.

Coloured kids! How AMUSING!

[meezergal.livejournal.com]

This is a truly horrible ad! D:

[lauren5678.livejournal.com]

Oh holy shit...

[amiga500.livejournal.com]

I get the pun, though I had to stare at this for a bit, but . . .WTF to so much of it. The (toy?) mouse makes no sense, the bit about the kids with the mouse making the outfit attractive makes no sense, the awful caricatures that disappear behind the text box make no sense . . . and the racism is the icing on top of . . .whatever this is.

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

I THINK that the "colored kids" with the fake mouse scaring the woman so she pulls up her skirt, and doing so, shows off her legs (and, coincidentally, also shows off her BOOTS). Her holding her skirts up makes the outfit "more attractive."

So it's not just racist...it's sexist, too!

[starmalachite.livejournal.com]

The sexism & the racism make one ugly cocktail, all right.

Note to the mod: 1905 is probably too early a date for this ad. Based on the woman's dress, I'd say 1912 to 1915.

[leoprincess.livejournal.com]

Oh my damn.