For those of you who don't know, several 7-11's across the US and Canada have been transformed into Kwik-E-Marts to promote The Simpsons Movie.
The employees of these 7-11's (many of whom are south asian and middle eastern) are being asked to wear name tags that read "Apu" and are told to say "thank you, come again" to customers as they leave. racialicious' take on it can be found here: http://www.racialicious.com/2007/07/03/step%e2%80%99n-dispense-it-racist-apu-promo-for-7-eleven/ (read the comments on this one-- it's really interesting) The CNN video and again Racialicious' response: http://www.racialicious.com/2007/07/03/step%e2%80%99n-dispense-it-racist-apu-promo-for-7-eleven/ and a podcast (addicted to race) featuring a prominent south asian blogger can be found here: http://www.addictedtorace.com/?p=159 _______________________________________________ Mellon Myers Undegraduate Fellowship Program at Macalester (http://macmmuf.org) [email protected] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html http://macmmuf.org/mailman/listinfo/list_macmmuf.org
