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TexasTowelie

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Tue Jun 28, 2016, 06:04 AM Jun 2016

'Racist' Red Cross poster prompts apology



When Margaret Sawyer first noticed the Red Cross safety poster at a pool in Salida, Colo., she thought she was looking at an unfortunate relic of the past.

When she saw it a second time at an entirely different pool in the central Colorado town, she was shocked, according to NBC affiliate KUSA.

"I saw this one and I just kept thinking, 'It looks like they're trying to do something here that shows all kids together of all different backgrounds but they're clearly not hitting the mark,'" she said.

Not only were the poster's designers not hitting the mark, Sawyer thought, they had created an image that was racist.

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-red-cross-poster-20160627-story.html

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