Black Spongebob

Black Spongebob

Summary: a bunch of Spongebob Valentine's Day cards were misprinted in China. Spongebob is black instead of yellow on these cards and he resembles the old stereotype charicatures of black people from way back.

Now, check out what this woman has to say about it:

AN UN-FUNNY VALENTINE: Greeting card picture evokes race stereotype

Jemeka Garcia of Flint Township was skeptical of a mistake, in part because the cards appear to be well made. Garcia and her husband, Scott, complained to the Free Press earlier this week after their 6-year-old daughter discovered the different SpongeBob. The family purchased the cards at a Wal-Mart near their home so the girl could hand them out to her first-grade classmates.

So this woman thinks that American Greetings, a company that relies on its good image and public goodwill to sell its product, deliberately printed these cards so as to insult her and minorities?

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Just because the printers in China were mistaken about the colors does not mean that they need be incompetent (so as to produce poor quality cards as well as miscolored ones.)