Gawker has a wonderfully snarky post on the offensive gift guide that the New York Times has created for people “Of Color.”
It’s not that there’s anything wrong with the gifts themselves—I think it’s really cool that there’s a children’s book that tells the story of Justice Sotomayor, and we’ve long been fans of Taylor Chang-Babaian’s Asian Faces makeup guide. Still, the guide just shows how we’re so often lumped into that group known as The Other.
Says Gawker: “It’s a celebration of the racist assumption that ‘people of color’ are defined by their colors—but white people get to self-define with their interests, hobbies, and desire for ‘Home and Decorating Gifts for $25 and Under.'”
