The only brown Corn Pop on the cereal box cartoon was the janitor

[DigitalDrifter]

Imagine the outrage !!

The white Corn Pop's were all having fun, the brown was polishing floors.

Kellogg’s apologizes for lone brown corn pop on cereal box

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Kellogg’s apologizes for lone brown corn pop on cereal box



By Samantha Schmidt October 26



Novelist Saladin Ahmed was looking at the back of a Corn Pops cereal box when he noticed a small but jarring detail.

The colorful illustration on the box depicted a chaotic scene of little yellow corn pop characters frolicking through a shopping mall.

But in the middle of the drawing, Ahmed spotted a lone non-yellow corn pop. The character looked as if it had brown skin. It also happened to be the only corn pop in all blue, and appeared to be waxing or scrubbing the mall’s floors.

On Wednesday morning, Ahmed tweeted to Kellogg’s: Why is “literally the only brown corn pop on the whole cereal box the janitor?”

It’s “a tiny thing,” he added, “but when you see your kid staring at this over breakfast and realize millions of other kids are doing the same…”

Within five hours, Kellogg’s responded. The artwork has been updated and will be in stores soon, the company tweeted.

“Kellogg is committed to diversity & inclusion,” the tweet read. “We did not intend to offend — we apologize.”

Kellogg’s apologizes for lone brown corn pop on cereal box

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Of course, brown people will now forever be known as "Corn Pops".

It's the nature of developing culture.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

They're YELLOW. Nobody wants a brown or black corn pop

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

They're YELLOW. Nobody wants a brown or black corn pop

Racist.

 

[Blackrook]

It shows how cowardly people have become that they keep caving to these bullies.

 

[rightwinger]

I have always considered Corn Pops to be very prejudiced

They used to make my Cocoa Puffs sit in the back of the cupboard

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Here's the offending cartoon. The horror!


DM6Wq0wWkAAPoqV by vegeta_mattia | Flickr

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

See. Corn pops are clearly Oriental.

 

[Blackrook]

That is hilarious how the one brown guy is the only one working while the lighter colored pops are goofing around and having a good time.

 

[petro]

Curious as to why the previous thread on brown pop was closed.

 

[Bush92]

They're YELLOW. Nobody wants a brown or black corn pop

Damn those racist Japanese!

 

[Bush92]

Here's the offending cartoon. The horror!


DM6Wq0wWkAAPoqV by vegeta_mattia | Flickr

Corn Pops have cirrhosis of the liver.

 

[Blackrook]

Brown pop is a symbol of our hard-working immigrants, who do jobs Americans don't want to do. Instead of censoring this advertisement, the left should be celebrating it!

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Only someone with absolutely nothing going on in their lives would examine cereal box.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

^^^ Amen to this. Is there anything that people will not get worked up over?

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Curious as to why the previous thread on brown pop was closed.

I didn't realize there was another one.

 

[blackhawk]

There was a time when someone a big deal out of something like that would have surprised me no longer the case.

 

[petro]

Curious as to why the previous thread on brown pop was closed.

I didn't realize there was another one.

Now cereal art is racist.
Under race/relations.
OP is harmonica.
Wasn't sure how to link it. Still there but now appears open. Stated closed yesterday.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

What's black and lives at the bottom of the ocean?


...Jacques Coustodian.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Imagine the outrage !!

The white Corn Pop's were all having fun, the brown was polishing floors.

Kellogg’s apologizes for lone brown corn pop on cereal box

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Morning Mix
Kellogg’s apologizes for lone brown corn pop on cereal box



By Samantha Schmidt October 26



Novelist Saladin Ahmed was looking at the back of a Corn Pops cereal box when he noticed a small but jarring detail.

The colorful illustration on the box depicted a chaotic scene of little yellow corn pop characters frolicking through a shopping mall.

But in the middle of the drawing, Ahmed spotted a lone non-yellow corn pop. The character looked as if it had brown skin. It also happened to be the only corn pop in all blue, and appeared to be waxing or scrubbing the mall’s floors.

On Wednesday morning, Ahmed tweeted to Kellogg’s: Why is “literally the only brown corn pop on the whole cereal box the janitor?”

It’s “a tiny thing,” he added, “but when you see your kid staring at this over breakfast and realize millions of other kids are doing the same…”

Within five hours, Kellogg’s responded. The artwork has been updated and will be in stores soon, the company tweeted.

“Kellogg is committed to diversity & inclusion,” the tweet read. “We did not intend to offend — we apologize.”

Kellogg’s apologizes for lone brown corn pop on cereal box

WTF.?.