Can it be coincidende that NONE of your child models is brown?

Posted Mon January 18, 2010 6:02 pm, by Ric B. written to Kelly's Kids

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A friend of mine recently became a Kelly's Kits rep and I was going to send the URL for your online catalog to my wife (who is currently in Canada) so that my daughters could pick out their own clothes and my wife could double check the sizes. After searching your online catalog for some time, I elected to not send the link. My daughters are of East Indian descent and I was unable to find a single, solitary picture in your catalog of a single child that was not light haired, blue-eyed and extremely white-skinned. There didn't even seem to be varying shades of white; they all looked like they had been hand selected for their extremely white skin.

Can it be a COINCIDENCE that there is not one single dark-skinned child anywhere in your catalog? Or did I simple miss him or her in my searches? Before I will consider patronizing your business, I need some kind of indication that there is not something going on here beyond extreme ignorance on the part of your marketing staff. Frankly, I find it a little difficult to believe that, out of all those children, they all just HAPPENED to be extremely light.

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Re: Can it be coincidende that NONE of your child models is brown? by papaspot Posted Wed February 3, 2010 @ 12:46 PM I've still received no response from this company. This leads me to conclude that the complete absence of any brown-skinned children is neither an accident nor are the children shown all relatives of the owner. If either of these two possibilities was the case, it would have taken but a few seconds to email me to clarify this. My family will NOT be patronizing this business. Reply Re: Can it be coincidende that NONE of your child models is brown? by papaspot Posted Mon January 25, 2010 @ 8:56 PM I've not heard a word from this company which is making it more and more difficult to believe that these children are simply relatives of the owner. Reply Re: Can it be coincidende that NONE of your child models is brown? by RedheadwGlasses Posted Tue January 19, 2010 @ 1:00 PM This compoany is a small family-run business out of rural Louisiana. The photos of the children show children that look so much alike, they seem to be siblings and cousins -- the grandchildren of the woman who started the business. While there certainly are many blacks in Louisiana, the south is still very much a segregated society. Surely you can find clothing for your kids from a more diverse company if it's that important to you. Also the "extremely white skinned" children you refer to -- that's the result of a sort of artsy overexposure of the photographs on the website. Reply sounds like they were saving money in hiring relatives for models then? n/t by PepperElf Tue January 19, 2010 @ 1:31 PM It's possible I suppose... by papaspot Tue January 19, 2010 @ 11:23 PM Re: Can it be coincidende that NONE of your child models is brown? by PepperElf Posted Tue January 19, 2010 @ 9:40 AM out of curiosity did they like the clothes? Reply Don't know by papaspot Tue January 19, 2010 @ 11:18 PM