Band-Aid Adding New Brown And Black Skin Tones

[demmiblue]

Source: CBSN Boston



NEW YORK (CBS) – The Band-Aid brand is diversifying its color palette.

Parent company Johnson and Johnson says it will be rolling out new Band-Aids in various skin tones.

For years advocates have pushed for more diversity from the brand, which says the new product is intended to be a stand in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. In an Instagram post making the announcement, the company also said it will be making a donation to Black Lives Matter.

Band-Aid says the new line will feature a range of tones from beige to dark brown. The company did not say when they will be in stores.

Read more: https://boston.cbslocal.com/2020/06/12/band-aid-new-colors-skin-tone-black-brown-johnson-and-johnson/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. This "suggestion" goes back decades. Here's a New Yorker cartoon from the Sixties.

[happy feet]

14. thanks

which is why as a person of color i find it hard to get excited or give credit to these companies all of a sudden seeing a new market in this down economy....riiight. Great for the young ones --- I just won't get excited.

[madaboutharry]

2. It makes you wonder why these weren't available 50 years ago.

[IronLionZion]

5. Because whiteness was always considered the default for America

Non-whites have always been considered to be not real Americans. I can imagine people in Band-Aid's corporate board room underestimating the demand for such products so it would not be a priority.

[Croney]

3. Thirty years ago I phoned a dance-supply store and asked

if they had flesh-colored tights for my child. The person asked, "What color flesh?"

She would never have an inkling that I credit that moment with opening my eyes to so many things I took for granted.

[CrispyQ]

12. That's a great story!

Sometimes it only takes a single comment to give you a new perspective.

[lagomorph777]

4. About damned time. Power Rangers and Disney characters, sure. But match your skin? Too bad.

[ToxMarz]

6. I don't see any orange one's

Someone's gonna tweet about this!

[kytngirl]

7. Ha! Love it!

[El Mimbreno]

8. They can start distributing here in New Mexico...

Only 37% white non-Hispanic; many shades of brown.

[murielm99]

9. Do they still have those

flesh-colored crayola crayons that are sort of a salmon color? Even when I was a kid I wondered about that. I had black and brown school friends.

[Totally Tunsie]

10. I came here to post about exactly that.

Crayola has announced their Colors of the World" collection which addresses this very concern!

https://www.crayola.com/worldcolors

?h=767&la=en&w=767

[murielm99]

11. That is wonderful and long overdue!

[area51]

13. Do they have Simpson's yellow?

[Kali]

15. The good clear ones they had a few years ago would be better

match INDIVIDUAL skin tones with much less cost. Why did they stop making those?