Kelloggs apologizes for lone brown corn pop on cereal box [View all]

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/10/26/kelloggs-apologizes-for-lone-brown-corn-pop-on-cereal-box/?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_with_top_mostshared_1_na&utm_term=.1dcd634517a4

Link to tweet

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…”

What I love the most about these stories are racists obliviously outing themselves in their reactions to it in the comments.

Schrodinger's brown person is simultaneously too sensitive and needs to learn his place and shut up. All corn pops matter.