Race row after Afro washing up sponges go on sale

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Sunil

A company behind a new range of Afro style washing up sponges has been slammed for being racist.

Campaigners have attacked British makers Paladone for its latest range of dish cleaning products which caricatures black soul legend Diana Ross as having a brillo pad for a hairstyle.

The offending items, which have just gone on sale across the UK, have been likened to reproducing golliwogs or the Black and White Minstrels by reinforcing negative stereotypes.

Anger: The cleaning brushes 'were not appropriate for the 21st century', campaigners said

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Fans of Disco music can 'get down with the dishes' with this washing-up sponge made to look like an Afro haircut

'Negative stereotypes': The range of dish washing products have been branded racist

4/26/128:31 PM

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Come on People If it was Steel Wool I can understand.

4/27/124:24 AM

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People are offended too easily. They are bigger issues on hand to worry about than squabble about Brillo pads.

They actually look like fun. Wonder if they come in Indian people:/

4/27/123:20 PM

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