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Originally posted by Sistermadly
In the article, someone was quoted as saying that people of color view things like this differently than white folks; in essence, a white person can look at an ad that has women of color and white women in it and say "what a group of beautiful women", whereas a person of color will look at the ad and say "ah, there's someone in there who looks like me, this company must care about my community." It might be a nonsense lawsuit, but the feeling of exclusion is very, very real for some folks and shouldn't be dismissed.
But what do I know? I'm too damn old and have too much booty for Abercrombie anyway. 
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HUGE PET PEEVE OF MINE HERE....sorry to rant but I get so freakin' pissed off when I see WHITE used as a color to describe a race of people, and then something supposedly more PC (such as "person of color" or "asian-american" or what-have-you) to describe another race of people. I will preach it till the day I die...if you are going to use WHITE for one group then use BLACK/BROWN/GREY/PURPLE/etc. to describe the other group. Otherwise, you should use Caucasian and African-American (or whatever the case may be). It is, in my never-humble opinion, discriminatory and degrading to call someone "white" when you use a "PC" term for someone else.
And yes, I can PROUDLY say that when I see a group of "beautiful women" in an ad that I will say to myself "what a group of beautiful women" --- I will not say "oh, there aren't enough WHITE people in the group so they must be anti-white and I'm not going to shop there" -- I don't operate that way and its pretty sh*%%y that other people DO act that way, but then will be the first in the line that reads:
"SUE HERE - Please take a number and your lawsuit will be filed accordingly..."
(oh, and I am also proud to say that I am too old and have too much of everything to work/shop at A&F!)