tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043029920403749082.post7018154852442122777..comments2024-01-18T05:55:19.370-05:00Comments on Author Tony Conaway: A Rose by Any Other Name...Tony Conawayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07256198676368979247noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043029920403749082.post-74466872340917743072008-12-11T16:06:00.000-05:002008-12-11T16:06:00.000-05:00That's hilarious, Jay!In fact, Crayola DID have an...That's hilarious, Jay!<BR/><BR/>In fact, Crayola DID have an Indian Red. As their website explains: <BR/><BR/>Indian Red is renamed Chestnut in 1999 in response to educators who felt some children wrongly perceived the crayon color was intended to represent the skin color of Native Americans. The name originated from a reddish-brown pigment found near India commonly used in fine artist oil paint.Tony Conawayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07256198676368979247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043029920403749082.post-80154448468335040022008-12-11T11:58:00.000-05:002008-12-11T11:58:00.000-05:00The whole "flesh = white" thing at Crayola is one ...The whole "flesh = white" thing at Crayola is one of the things that I found most hilarious about pre-Civil Rights era thinking. It can lead to a fun game where you try to think of the most offensive crayon colors possible. You can't just throw dirty words in there; they have to be colors that would make sense to a 50s Crayola executive, but be terribly, terribly offensive to today's way of thinking:<BR/><BR/>Indian Red<BR/>Charlie Chan (for pale yellow)<BR/>TB Discharge (for green/yellow)<BR/><BR/>And so on.Jay Black...https://www.blogger.com/profile/03582422659527658651noreply@blogger.com