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 "****** brown".
Moore was understandably shocked.
"For me to buy couches and then the colour coming under that, ****** 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
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 "****** brown".
Moore was understandably shocked.
"For me to buy couches and then the colour coming under that, ****** 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
