has been the talk of the web all week. Recently, Beyonce's clothing line ran this add for it's children's clothing:




and of course, now we have all of these <i>"outraged"</i> individuals who feel as if Beyonce' is being a bad role model and exploiting children JonBenet Ramsey style. Check out the following news brief:

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?videoId=438222&sMPlaylistID

Now normally, I wait and see everyone else's opinion on the matter then post mine, but I'm going to put mine out there today. I feel like people should stop trying to tear down what few positive role models we have left in order to get there 15 minutes of fame. I feel like there are so many other things out there people could be protesting for and fighting about, other than Beyonce' having little girls play dress up for one of her ads. <b>Just think if the young men who got beat in Philly, the Sean Bell case, the war in Iraq, President Bush's lack of leadership skills, Hunger in our nation and world hunger, curing diseases like cancer and AIDS, and hell even homelessness in the United States (have you heard about the <a href="http://www.broadarrow.net/cgi-bin/unplugged.pl?noframes;read=151847">parking lots for the homeless now?!?</a>) got this much attention, outrage, and publicity? We could actually change something.</b> But it's like we have become desynthesized to the important, major, issues. It's not like she had them on there in super short outfits, working in sweat shops to make her stuff, being pimped out or made to look whorish, or even posing in nothing but a sheet like Miley Cyrus (Disney star Hannah Montana, 14 years old) was in Vanity fair:

The girls are fully covered, and it looks harmless. We have become so sensitive and slap happy to over critique and analyze situations that we can't see simplicity. We want to create a reason and a wrong, and sometimes it is really unnecessary. I just feel like it was an ignorant topic and there was no point. Maybe I'm wrong and don't understand because I don't have kids. But I thought it was cute and tasteful, and I got the idea right away that it was dress up/tea party stuff. Everyone else wants to say she wants kids to dress like her and they have boas, stilettos, bling and leather, it's "glamorous pedophilia". People should really learn the important issues instead trying to turn nothing into something is all I'm saying. Geezus...

*steps down off soapbox, slides it to the side, drops mike, opens door, and chucks the deuces*
    

For anyone who was really confused or questioning if racism is still alive and well:


As negative as this imagery is in relation to African American's, and this particular bar owner being located in the south knowing this I'm sure, it should baffle me that he attempts to appear confused as to why so many are outraged by this shirt. But I'm not baffled. I am just really pissed. Read on:

"The Obama campaign is also enduring some much less positive promotion. Mulligan’s Bar and Grill in Cobb County, Ga., is selling t-shirts with a picture of Curious George peeling a banana, with the words “Obama ‘08″ underneath.

According to the AJC, the bar’s owner, Mike Norman, acknowledged the imagery’s Jim Crow roots but said he sees nothing wrong with depicting a prominent black person as a monkey.

He said, “We’re not living in the (19)40’s. Look at him…the hairline, the ears — he looks just like Curious George.” A few months ago, a caller on the Rush Limbaugh Show referred to Obama as Curious George. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the publishing company that owns the Curious George image, says it is considering legal action to stop the sale of a T-shirt depicting Barack Obama as the monkey from children’s books."

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