Whole Foods removes "offensive" Obama chicken ad
A Whole Foods supermarket in New York has removed a depiction of President Obama that several neighbors found offensive, WNBC reported.
A sign posted in front of a Whole Foods in Manhattan's Upper West Side advertised organic chicken using a rendering of Mr. Obama. The use of the president's image did not sit well with some who objected to the racial stereotypes at work behind the advertisement.
"There are certain things that have been used to put down black people - watermelon, fried chicken," neighbor Woody Henderson told WNBC.
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Added Bronx resident Jason Nunez: "Even if he's not the president, you're going to have an African American promoting the sale of chicken? They can do better than that."
A Whole Foods spokesman explained that the supermarket chain creates a variety of images to promote store merchandise and that "there was no disrespect meant at all" in the decision to use Mr. Obama's likeness in an ad for chicken.
The sign was removed after "it was brought to our attention by a shopper that it may be perceived as offensive," the spokesman said.
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It's not the first snafu involving the up-market grocery chain and Mr. Obama: Whole Foods CEO John Mackey unleashed controversy earlier this year when he compared the president's health care reform law to "fascism."
Mackey later said on "CBS This Morning" that his comparison was "a bad choice of words," but did not retract the substance of his criticism. "We no longer have free-enterprise capitalism in health care," he said. "The government is directing it. So we need a new word for it."
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After this jerk made all the remarks before the election and now this I know I am right.
he is a MONKEY....
Obama being from a Black Kenyan Father ate fried Rover on a stick and I'm sure he prefers it to fried chicken.
His dog BO sleeps with one eye open.
It's funny how nowadays if you ask a black person you know if the like watermellon, they say they do not but you know the do like everyone else.
Too Funny
people accused me of being a racist because i did not vote for obama. i am a registered republican, so i don't make it a practice to vote for democrats. however, people can't accept the reality or the facts. if you disagree then you "have to be a racist" or a "Sexist", or "homophobic".