Colour Me... Apricot?
Remember when your colouring set included "Flesh" as a colour? Heh, that was a great way to introduce race politics into kindy.
But these are enlightened times. Behold! Crayola has introduced the ethnicity-sensitive Multicultural Crayons and Multicultural Pencils.
The ethnic-sensitive colours, incidentally, are: Black, Sepia, Peach, Apricot, White, Tan, Mahogany, and Burnt Sienna for the crayons and Black, Red, Mahogany, Peach, Brown, Dark Brown, Light Brown, and Tan for the pencils. (The ethnic-sensitive crayons have a different range from the ethnic-sensitive pencils?)
There are also Multicultural Washable Markers and, you guessed it, they have yet again a different range of ethnic-sensitive colours: Tan, Beige, Tawny, Gold, Bronze, Terra Cotta, Mahogany, and Sienna.
Hmm... Skribe might be Tan, JOOB ranges from Peach to Red depending on his temperament, and I think I'm Apricot, possibly Gold.
Whee! Race has never been this much fun! Such subtle shades of ethnicity to consider. Now, which colour are you?
1 comment:
Interestingly, despite the 'multicultural' range of colours, as with the flesh colour, they have yet to produce a crayon that is coloured like any human on this planet.
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