If they are appearing to make a joke out of the prison system and use certain imagery. This goes far beyond silly kids playing cops and robbers.
ETA: Not to mention, a large percentage of children serviced by Reading is Fundamental have incarcerated family. It isn't cute and funny to raise money for disadvantaged kids using a theme that is highly correlated with how and why the kids are disadvantaged in the first place.
Context people, context. Racial and socioeconomic privileges allow for rose colored glasses and the ability to say "how is that offensive" and "ohhhh we never thought of that."
Last edited by DrPhil; 10-29-2014 at 06:36 PM.
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