[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

It is about clothing if you are implying a black child can’t wear a hoodie with the slogan cheeky little monkey for instance. We all know about the negative connotations of the word monkey used in the past but if people are going to apply the same connotation in their minds to a harmless fun slogan on a child’s hoodie that really is their problem - not the child’s or anyone else.

If people want to see hate in a word whatever the context and intent there is no moving forward in my opinion.

A black child can wear any top they want. Totally up to them if they chose something like this,

The problem is with modelling such a top on a black child. Its very offensive to a lot of people, and I am astounded that it managed to pass a bunch of people by..its not like there is only one person making decisions like this in such a huge company, and some people are paid specifically to make sure stuff like this does not happen

I read about the mother not finding it racist. thats fine as its her opinion on it and I have heard black friends saying they did not find it offensive too. But a lot DO find it offensive. And I don't blame them as I know the history of how 'monkey' has been used against black people. FFS we still have idiots throwing bananas at footballers and doing monkey chants and stuff. Its not exactly something thats way in the past so people can use the excuse that they don't know about it...