Saturday, October 17, 2009

Racist Halloween

I don’t even know what to say about this:


Unfortunately, This "illegal alien [sic] costume" is only the beginning. Amazon also has a host of other racist costumes for sale. Thanks to the good work of CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles), Target has pulled the above item from its on-line store (yay!), but a whole slew of other websites are still selling it. The UFW has an e-mail campaign to get the costume pulled from Walgreens, Toys R Us, and Amazon (although internet rumors have it that Toys R Us has just pulled the item, too).

An even funner way to join the campaign is to go to one of the following sites and submit a customer review that reads something along the lines of “THIS PRODUCT IS A RACIST PIECE OF SHIT.”

amazon.com

buycostumes.com

If you need inspiration, you can read the mierda in support of the costume here.

5 comments:

Clara said...

wow... that's insane. Thanks for sharing it. I shall give them a piece of my mind too. Good work!

oakling said...

Why does the "illegal alien" have a green card? If there were ads for this, they'd say "Comes with full-coverage mask, so your neighbors will never know how ignorant you truly are!!"

oakling said...

That was satisfying. I am having a blast posting negative reviews of some of these other costumes.

oakling said...

Happy days... the link to the illegal alien costume on Amazon doesn't work cause they took it down. They still have one listing for it with no picture and no reviews (except soon the one I just posted) - not sure how that one slipped through their cracks.

ihearthamas said...

these are all totally disturbing!! who the hell is designing them?