Have we gone too far?

I may get slammed for saying this, but I do see both sides to this situation, but I choose to just look at it by what it is . . . a stuffed toy.

Okay, so I was watching the news last night and I noticed that there was a huge uproar about the Obama sock monkey toy and I couldn't see the big deal about it. Isn't it just like the grey (original) version but brown? Yes, I do know my history (I didn't sleep through all the history classes I took) and I know that "monkey" was a derogatory name for African Americans, but I don't see any harm in the toy. Isn't it just that . . . a toy? If we find so much wrong with the brown version, then how come the grey version is perfectly acceptable? I know that Jews were also told by Hitler that they were "ape-born", so the white/grey version is racist towards them? Give me a break. They are just toys, stuffed animals. I've made a few before from old socks.

Have we gone too far with what we find outlandish and what we don't? When has it come to the point that we are judging sock monkeys and having such a big problem with it? If that gets soo much time on the airwaves (at least here in utah it does) how come all the other despicable things that go on in the fashion industry we just kind of laugh it off or just momentarily think about it and it is put behind us.

Why is it okay to depict a white politician as a monkey but it isn't okay to do that for anyone else? That is a huge double standard. So when it comes to election time and if Obama doesn't win, are people going to say it was because he was black and it was racisim that he didn't win?

"If I am offended when offense was not intended, I am a fool. If I am offended when offense was intended, I am a bigger fool."