Oblivious to the Obvious
Tuesday July 05th 2005, 1:07 pm
Filed under: cultural differences,daily life,history,weird


does anyone else find this OFFENSIVE? this old plaque is on the wall of one of the most famous cafes in paris called ‘le comptoir du relais’ in the…

st. germain des pres area (6th arrondissement at l’odean) you find stuff like this all over france and not just on walls. you’ll see cartoons of black people with bones through their noses on packaging like on…boxes of children’s cookies and candy. the sad thing is whenever i point this out to anyone, they just brush it off like it’s harmless, and I’M the offensive one. GEEZ.

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