Saturday, July 11, 2020

Darlie toothpaste



This Chinese toothpaste was the unequivocally blackface Darkie for more than 50 years. Half of the company was bought by Colgate-Palmolive in 1983 and in '89 changed the name and image to "Darlie," which is inoffensively nonsensical. Let's hear it for not being racist!

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The Sty of the Blind Pig (1974)

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