Diversified shopping

[George Thompson]

> Do they have one labeled "Flesh"?  [Pause ...]  Indeed!
> -----
> Prismacolor Col-Erase Pencils

I recall, many years ago, indeed, perhaps in the 1950s, on the Ed Sullivan Show, a black comedian, name forgotten, doing a riff on "flesh-colored Band-Aids".

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.  Working on a new edition, though.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at att.net>
Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 2:19 pm
Subject: Re: Diversified shopping
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

> Do they have one labeled "Flesh"?  [Pause ...]  Indeed!
> -----
> Prismacolor Col-Erase Pencils
>
> Prismacolor Col-Erase, the erasable colored
> pencil, is great for colored layouts and design ­
> it makes it so easy to erase a color or a whole
> color scheme. These pencils are pre-sharpened.
>
> 12-Color Set ­ Includes the colors, Vermilion,
> Brown, Terra Cotta, Tuscan Red, Blue, Carmine
> Red, Green, Yellow, Black, Purple, Light Blue, and Light Green.
>
> 24-Color Set ­ Includes all of the pencils in the
> 12-color set, plus White, Flesh, Pink, Violet,
> Light Gray, Indigo Blue, Grass Green, Lavender,
> Canary Yellow, Orange, Rose, and Scarlet Red.
> -----
> http://www.dickblick.com/products/prismacolor-col-erase-pencils/
>
> Apparently the Brown, Red, Yellow, and Black
> peoples -- not to mention the Green -- don't have
> Flesh color.  I expect Mars attacks.
>
> Crayola was more sensitively multicultural -- Wikipedia says:
>
> Some colors have been renamed rather than
> replaced, often due to cultural sensitivity
> issues. For example, "Flesh" was changed to
> "Peach", since not all people have the same
> complexion, and "Indian Red" was changed to
> "Chestnut" out of concern the name was thought to
> be a reference to the skin color of Native
> Americans, although the name actually referred to
> a red pigment from India.[25] "Prussian Blue" was
> renamed "Midnight Blue", since the country of
> Prussia had long since ceased to exist and the name had fallen into disuse.
>
> Joel

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