To worry most people won’t ever ‘get it’

[OverTheRainbow88]

All the marches, Protests etc and people still don’t seem to understand!

Will they ever?

Clearly not.

Eh?

What?

Nope, some people will never get it.

I’m not sure why there is a picture of a book under a headline saying shopper calls out racist t shirt - so no clearly I don’t get it because it makes no sense.

Guarantee the last page of that book is ‘that’s my mermaid she’s so blonde haired and blue eyed’.

That photo doesn't appear to match the headline?

But it’s not a criticism of her hair - the whole premise of the books is naming a difference between the mermaid they’re looking at and their mermaid. That doesn’t imply there’s anything wrong with her hair it’s just different?

Sorry didn’t explain that Tesco printed that image as a T-shirt.

It’s so sad isn’t it! Hopefully everywhere selling it pulls the line and the book as well. BAME people are so under represented in books (and most other ways) and for the representation to be racist is just awful

The image on the front of the book (in the picture) was used on a t-shirt on toddler clothing in Tescos.

But the whole series of books are based on "that's not my" including dinosaurs, unicorns, dogs etc. with different items on them.

The fact that this goes straight over peoples heads is really worrying.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-8607229/Mum-discovers-racist-T-shirt-features-black-mermaid-fluffy-hair-Tesco.html

Link to the story op.
Massive fuck up from Tesco and there is no excuse

I get it. It's shit and insulting. Could have described hair 100 different positive ways and they didn't. You're not being precious.

I'm aware of a t shirt sold a Tescos where the phrase was taken from that boom but was changed, I heard as I've never read it, but are we saying they dont get it; it's racist. Or they dont get it; it's not racist?

Some people will never get it, will never try and get it, will never educate themselves or be prepared to change their minds.

This was awful from Tesco and it’s very depressing that people can’t or won’t see the racist element of this. If you don’t understand how this is offensive, educate yourselves.

OP no idea why pp don’t get it. I hope at some point everyone understands.

It's actually s sensory book. Each page has a different "feel" for the child. One mermaid has fluffy hair and you can feel the fluff. The next page says "this isn't my mermaid her clip is too bumpy" and then the child feels the plastic hair slide on the page and so on.
It's not racism. It's a kids book. There's about 6 different versions of it with a diffrerent mermaid and race on each front cover.

Oh most of them do get it. But they're racist and don't want to concede a single solitary point.

The more obtuse the argument and the more gentle and smiling they are as they deliver it, the more racist they invariably are at the core.

This was a terrible decision from Tesco. It's heartbreaking also that some people just can't understand why this would be offensive or confusing to a child of Afro Caribbean descent. It just shows how engrained racial prejudice is in our society.

It isn’t meant negatively but it was foolish because black people have had their hair mocked for being “fuzzy” etc for years.

My understanding from twitter is that it was previously a white mermaid with blonde fuzzy hair but this is a newer version which was intended to be inclusive?

I presume it's the "fluffy hair" comment that people find offensive?

@TheGoldenChild and they couldn’t have given the black mermaid the bumpy clip? It’s a stereotype that black people have fuzzy hair and this book / top perpetuates that. Imagine being a young black girl and this is all a book had to say about you... you are not right because your hair is too bumpy

Having a different opinion on this doesn't make you racist or uneducated. Such a lazy way to shut down any argument.