Just kidding. Apparently the cat has no one’s tongue on this blog! I have heard from all sorts of people who are itching to comment on various issues but there just doesn’t seem to be a thread for their topic.
So here you go. Another open thread. Now I hope to see all those comments!
M-H
The most telling part of this story is when the father of little three year old Adolf Hitler, recounted,
“he was raised not to avoid people of other races but not to mix with them socially or romantically. But he said he would try to raise his children differently.”
To me, this story demonstrates, cleary, how mistrust of others is passed on through generations. If this dad really watned to have an open circle of friends for his children, he would not have named them “pariah” names.
EASTON, Pa. – The father of 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell, denied a birthday cake with the child’s full name on it by one New Jersey supermarket, is asking for a little tolerance. Heath Campbell and his wife, Deborah, are upset not only with the decision made by the Greenwich ShopRite, but with an outpouring of angry Internet postings in response to a local newspaper article over the weekend on their flare-up over frosting.
Deborah Campbell, 25, said she phoned in her order last week to the ShopRite. When she told the bakery department she wanted her son’s name spelled out, she was told to talk to a supervisor, who denied the request.
Karen Meleta, a spokeswoman for ShopRite, defended the supermarket. She said the Campbells had similar requests denied at the same store the last two years and said Heath Campbell previously had asked for a swastika to be included in the decoration.
“We reserve the right not to print anything on the cake that we deem to be inappropriate,” Meleta said. “We considered this inappropriate.”
The Campbells ultimately got their cake decorated at a Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania, Deborah Campbell said.
The Campbells’ other two children also have unusual names: JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell turns 2 in a few months and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell will be 1 in April.
