The Associated Press
Posted: 10:07 AM- The Web site for a Utah company that had offered a sock monkey named for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama now says the toy won't be manufactured.
Posted: 10:07 AM- The Web site for a Utah company that had offered a sock monkey named for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama now says the toy won't be manufactured.
Some had called the toy racist.
On Saturday, Sock Obama LLC issued a statement saying it didn't mean to anger anyone. On Sunday, a statement on the company Web site said, "We are very apologetic to all who were upset by our toy idea. We will not be proceeding with the manufacturing of this toy."
Jeanetta Williams, president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, had called the toy "pure racism at its extreme."
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