Just when you thought it was safe to buy a sofa..

[UZI Suicide]

 

Seven-Year-Old Finds Offensive Label On Couch

Thursday April 5, 2007

 

It's not often that an item intended to induce relaxation causes this much stress. But when Doris Moore's seven-year-old daughter discovered an inappropriate label on a couch she just bought, kicking back and relaxing on the piece of furniture was the farthest thing from her mind.

 

The little girl approached her mom after discovering a label on the dark brown couch that listed the colour as "nigger brown".

 

Moore was understandably shocked.

 

"For me to buy couches and then the colour coming under that, nigger brown, I was floored," she said.

 

The couch was purchased as a store called Vaniak Furniture, but the manager, Romesh Kumar, claims he knew nothing about the label, saying it's a problem with the supplier.

 

For Moore, and her family, who are from Ghana it's difficult to fathom how such an offensive word could find its way on to a piece of furniture.

 

"With slavery and what happened to us and the words they called us, it hits home," she said.

 

Moore is filing a complaint with the Ontario Human Rights Commission and she wants the word taken off the furniture.

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_9536.aspx

[Matt Young]

lmao

[justsoyouknow]

"Fine, fine, let's compromise....jigaboo brown."

[geniusMoment]

I never saw that crayon in the Crayola box.

[2GOLD]

So the Klan has started making sofas? Wow, they really are branching out into new things.

[MrRant]

Wait, they had slaves in Canada?

[Gary Floyd]

"Actually, I asked for Tarbaby Black."

[Dobbs 3K]

I'd burst out laughing if I found something like that.

 

Yeah, I know.

[UZI Suicide]

 

 

Well, honestly, they weren't that far off...

[The Niggardly King]

That could pass for Sand Nigger in a lighter room.