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Racial Slur Blamed on Chinese Manufacturer

Submitted by Bill Belew on Wednesday, 11 April 2007No Comment

Talk about passing the buck….

A chocolate-colored sofa was delivered to the home of an African-American born, raised in NYC woman with a racial slur on the packaging describing the color as "nigger-brown."

The woman called the furniture store.

"Why should I take the blame?" the furniture store said. "I'm a trader, I don't manufacture."

The owner of the supplier…."I import my products from overseas. I've never noticed anything like that. This is something new to me."

He passed the blame on to a Chinese furniture maker in Guangzhou with a demand to remove all similar labels.

So…the Chinese get blamed.

Question: Who taught the Chinese that descriptive term? I can't imagine a shipping clerk in southern China coming up with it or finding it in a dictionary somewhere.

It is unacceptable to use such a term…it is equally unacceptable for not taking responsibility for mistakes made.

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Brian said:

Question: Who taught the Chinese that descriptive term? I can’t imagine a shipping clerk in southern China coming up with it or finding it in a dictionary somewhere.

I’ve seen some unlikely stuff written by ‘non English speakers’ working from a dictionary and with no first-hand knowledge of the language.

But yes – were I the merchant I would have taken immediate ownership and comped the lady her couch.

- 11 April 2007 at 10:29 pm

Anonymous said:

American movies? Anyway whoever taught this must be all too familiar with this term.

- 18 April 2007 at 2:49 pm

Anonymous said:

Get a life lady! Sure, it’s offensive, but obviously not racist, they don’t know enough about the term to be racist! Let the manufacturer, or whoever, know about it, but to make a big deal out of this is just stupid! There’s probably a real good chance they heard the term in a rap song, sung by guess what ‘minority’? So all you people out there who thought it was ok to use the term,WRONG! It’s come home to roost!

- 25 November 2007 at 6:01 am