re: #345 Walter L. Newton

What’s possibly “racist” about this ad?

Personally I think having a section devoted to gifts for “colored” people offensive. I might be being a little too thin skinned about it but in a thread yesterday someone used the word “boy” and was roundly thrashed for it.
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Meanwhile, if they are going to include sections devoted to particular segments of the population why only highlight one based on race? (Why highlight it at all, really … there are plenty of things listed here people who are not black or Latino may want, but anyway.) Why not have a section for the gay people in your life? Or Jewish? The answer, of course, is because it is insulting and offensive and so utterly at odds with how the NYT conducts itself in all other areas of the paper.