DTCwordfan
/// Believe me it gets played, AOG, there wasn't half a row over their toothpaste brand, 'Darkie' that became 'Darlie' overnight - a Hong Kong and Guangdong brand/market...... ///
I don't think it was the Chinese who were playing the 'race card', once again they inadvertently upset the sensitivities of those black folk.
Reminiscent of the lable being changed on Camp Coffee.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-404516/Camp-coffee-forced-change-label-PC-brigade.html
And we won't even go down the Robinson's Jam label road.
*** Groups of African Americans, religious groups, and Colgate-Palmolive shareholders began to band together in banning the product. As reported by the New York Times, the chairman of Colgate-Palmolive at the time stated that the logo and name would be changed to reflect the company’s will to recognize the sensitive nature of the situation. ***
http://newsone.com/2853883/darkie-darlie-toothpaste-colgate/