This morning, John Chisum made a comment on the Breakfast for the Brain column. John wrote: “I hope they don’t ban western movies because you might see a cowboy lasso a animal and that could bring up frightening memories. I’d suggest that snowflakes that scare easily stick to coloring books.”
Oh, how right you are Chisum!
Introducing Crayola’s New ‘Colors of the World’ Crayons! TaaDaa!!
Yeah, this is for real. It was announced about a month ago.
24 crayons (plus eight other classic colors for eyes and hair)
At a moment when race is at the very top of the national conversation, Crayola is, finally, providing kids with more than a handful of colors to choose from when they draw self portraits, family portraits and pictures of their friends.
Finally! Could this be the “conversation about race” that the left keeps talking about? Now we’re serious, now we’re getting somewhere.
This is a set of 24 crayons (plus eight other classic colors for eyes and hair) that were developed in partnership with Victor Casale, formerly the chief chemist and managing director of MAC cosmetics and currently CEO of MOB Beauty.
“Finding some one’s right shade has been a goal of mine for my whole career,” Casale says in a promotional vid for the crayons’ release.
CASALE, THE COLOR BOY
The whole thing is stupid. As if there only 24 skin tones. Look at a picture of crowded New York City streets. Hundreds of skin tones.
Why is the left SO OBSESSED with skin color? Because they’re racist. They always have been. THEY divide people into groups by color. And they exclude Caucasian people. To the lefties, there are the individual colored groups, and then there is the conglomerate of People of Color. But the “pink skins” are shunned. They aren’t people of color as far as lefty is concerned.
So, in spite of the virtue signalling by Crayola, the crayon manufacturer may be in hot water. They committed the mortal sin of including light skin in the “Colors of the World”.
WHAT COLOR ARE YOU?
In a second strike against Crayola, there is NO BLACK CRAYON!
DON’T BLACK CRAYONS MATTER?
Cat Bowen, who writes for a millenial mom’s website, describes what these new colors mean for families—particularly multiracial families:
Coming from a multicultural household, there is literally a crayon in this box for everyone in my family, from my Chinese husband to my Jamaican brother-in-law, to my Puerto Rican nephews, and even my own nearly-translucent Slavic mountain hue. There is a color for all of us.
Let’s all join hands and sing Kumbaya.
CAT BOWEN. WHAT’S HER COLOR? VERY LIGHT ROSE? VERY LIGHT GOLDEN? VERY LIGHT HEADED?
In addition to the crayons, Crayola has published a coloring book. The crayons and coloring book can be pre-ordered from Wal-Mart.
THERE NEEDS TO BE A COLORING BOOK OF KIDS RIOTING AND BURNING.
I don’t know why Crayola felt a need to do this. Were people complaining that their kids were at a loss? ‘Mommy! I can’t draw and color me! There’s no color like me! Waaaaaah!
All my grandkids are all grown up. At some point, I’ll have Great Grandkids and I’ll buy them coloring books and crayons. But I won’t be buying Crayola. Dollar General, here I come.
