( – promoted by Brian Leubitz)

Sometimes you just can’t make this stuff up.  Over the flip you will find the tale of Chinese furniture, being sold in Canada, with a bad attitude. Take that Sen. Correa, you aren’t the only one fighting the symbolic fight.

Yee Demands Apology, Removal of Racist Furniture Labels

Guangzhou company markets color of leather sofa with racial slur

SACRAMENTO – Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco/San Mateo) today called on a Chinese company to immediately discontinue selling furniture labeled with a racist slur and to issue an apology.  It was recently reported in the Toronto Star that a company from Guangzhou, China is selling leather furniture with a color description as “Nigger-brown.”  While the furniture is being sold in Canada, it is not yet known if the furniture is also being sold in the United States.

“It is completely unacceptable and there is really no excuse for an international company to market their product with such hurtful and derogatory language,” said Yee, who was born Guangzhou.  “While this may be the result of a poor translation, there needs to be some quality control when it comes to such insensitive words.”

“I have called the Counsel General in San Francisco and we plan to get to the bottom of this,” said Yee.  “This company needs to immediately discontinue selling products with this description and issue an apology.”

Last summer, Yee led an effort to remove a racially charged advertisement in the Netherlands.  The ad, promoting the release of Sony’s white-cased portable video game system (PSP), depicted a white woman angrily grabbing a black woman in the face with the text “Playstation Portable. White is coming.”  One week after Yee launch his campaign against the billboard, Sony pulled the ad and issued a formal apology.