Miscellany 08 Jul 2006 09:08 pm
Well It’s About Time…
About 15 years ago it occurred to me there were no Black-People Bandaids. I think I must have been supposed to be listening to a sermon because for some reason I can feel my orchestra robe on my legs in this memory…..but I digress. Anyway, I was thinking at the time that if you had skin any darker than Crayola “flesh”, there wasn’t a bandaid to match you. I’m actually paler than Crayola “flesh” but that isn’t really the point. When the fabric kinds came out there was a tone a bit more tan but it was still decidedly caucasian. And the clear kind didn’t work because the “white” square in the middle was white, but not in a blanco kind of way dahling. When I had kids I figured they could use Barney or Looney Toons if they didn’t want a peachy strip on their wound. But lo and behold…someone at Johnson and Johnson got smart. Here they are!
