Users Push Back On Racially Charged Etsy Merchandise

From theGrio

The popular craft site Etsy,

forwp-incontent-custom-banner ampforwp-incontent-ad1"> where users can sell their homemade wares directly to buyers, has come under fire for allowing some sellers to hock merchandise with racially charged imagery:

A woman named Raquel Mack has translated her personal outrage against Etsy’s decision to sell Mammies, Sambos, and more into action. Having started a Change.org petition demanding the Etsy halt the sale of such items, she points out in the wording that these sales violates the company’s anti-discrimination policy – and that the NAACP has already confronted the company over the issue.

Read more at theGrio.