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https://quietjourney.com/community/YABB.cgi?num=1275410333 Message started by Arrowhead Paddler on Jun 1st, 2010 at 4:38pm |
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Title: Re: Sanborn Paddles and Minnesota IV canoe Post by solotripper on Jun 2nd, 2010 at 10:52pm
For whatever reason, I didn't get that product description too come up?
Now that I see it's named for a person, I have even less reservations about it than the zero I had before ;) I doubt it's name will cost them sales. Most people won't make the inadvertent possible racial connection. Hopefully some local do-gooder won't make it a something its not :-/ Too paraphrase a wise man, " If your looking too be offended, you'll never be disappointed" Here in MI, there used too be a restaurant chain in the 70's called Sambo's. Sort of a Denny's/Big Boy type family place. The one closest too me was in an urban area. They had a majority/minority clinetele. Then one day one of the local activists decided that the name was a racial insult. Almost overnight , the same people who had been eating and working there for years, were now picketing the place :( So even though they served the community, employed them, they ended up going out of business because of the adverse publicity. The activist got his pound of flesh, the minority community got one less decent place too eat and work. |
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