As you may have heard, a whole lot of companies are taking this moment

[conuly]

to change their racist branding or, for companies such as Band-Aids and Capezio, to adding an appropriate range of skin tones to their products.

This is long overdue, of course, and I'm more than a little disappointed that they're not saying that more loudly. "Oh, wow, look how time flies. Yes, we know the right time to do this was - what, 50 years ago? Longer? - uh, a really long time ago, but we're getting around to it now!"

The lack of honesty galls.

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[conuly]

Hm... when was this?

[peoriapeoriawhereart]

I feel like there were some changes in the 1970s regarding the formulation of the strip; note, some of them may have been drugstore brand ones just popped into the metal tin. Also, I wouldn't say every Band-Aid I met was manufactured during the same administration it was used in.

There was a fair amount of "Bomb shelter supplies? Let's use them." going on in schools too.