Touré targets Big Skittle

Posted at 12:18 pm on March 29, 2012 by Twitchy Staff | View Comments

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NYT story on Skittles raises an important issue: we're buying Skittles at an increased rate to memorialize Trayvon thus... enriching them.
— Touré (@Toure) March 29, 2012

The article he’s referring to is here.

Clearly Skittles is making a profit off of a tragedy and therefore its wealth must be redistributed.

Should Skittles & parent company Wrigley's get to profit from our protest wo a demand that much of that is donated someplace productive? No.

— Touré (@Toure) March 29, 2012

Why should Skittles win bc they're associated w protest if they don't do anything to directly & materially help the Martins or the struggle?

— Touré (@Toure) March 29, 2012

.@KobetheBoat It's irrelevant that Skittles didn't ask us to buy. Should they profit over accidental association with a tragedy?

— Touré (@Toure) March 29, 2012

@Toure been said skittles should donate to his family or the cause period! Crazy free publicity.

— Inflewence (@InflewenceofINF) March 29, 2012

There are multiple issues at play here. RT @drjkapp: @Toure You cannot be serious. Focus on the issue and don't cloud it. #Trayvon

— Touré (@Toure) March 29, 2012

@Toure I was waiting for someone to talk about the real monetary implications of buying Skittles and iced tea. Donate that $ to the family!

— Jahmaiah… (@touchthaskye) March 29, 2012

.@chrissyteigen Execs at Skittles know they're in a sensitive spot bc they're profiting from what's essentially blood money.

— Touré (@Toure) March 29, 2012

.@chrissyteigen I don't see bad press for Skittles, yet. We're buying it like a symbol of revolution not saying hey why should they profit?

— Touré (@Toure) March 29, 2012

.@chrissyteigen I'd like to see Skittles take some of their profit & donate to anti gun violence efforts or somesuch. That's fair.

— Touré (@Toure) March 29, 2012

They know it is. Sales tracking. RT @KobetheBoat: how is it even fair to assume martins death had any bearing on profits?

— Touré (@Toure) March 29, 2012

.@AntonioSolomon @chrissyteigen Is there another violent crime cause célèbre that had a candy become part of it, enriching that company?

— Touré (@Toure) March 29, 2012

This is obviously not the central issue but Skittles' profiteering thanks to us buying it bc of Trayvon obviates some financial donation.

— Touré (@Toure) March 29, 2012

So nice of him to want to be so generous with Skittles’ “blood money.” Meanwhile, how much has he donated in the name of #JusticeForTrayvon?

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Model Chrissy Teigen wasn’t picking up what Touré was putting down.

.@Toure just clarifying — are you are demanding skittles donate because protesters are buying and skittles should not profit??

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) March 29, 2012

.@Toure as ideal as that would be, skittles taking a stance on such controversial issue isn't good for a company, a candy company at that.

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) March 29, 2012

.@Toure it's a business still. people buy, business profits. yes people are buying, but it isn't exactly good press for Skittles.

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) March 29, 2012

this is 100% NOT TRUE. RT @GCTerry fact is saying nothing is am implicit endorsement of Sanford PD, Zimmerman, Oliver, etc. Step up, Wrigley

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) March 29, 2012

Because Skittles isn't donating skittles for protests, they are in support of Zimmerman? Oh god.

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) March 29, 2012

@Toure I don't think they're too keen on being associated with such a huge, controversial issue in the first place.

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) March 29, 2012

oh 2 can play this game of only RT'ing random people who agree with you to make you "more right".

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) March 29, 2012

@Toure @chrissyteigen I disagree with that. Then every company would have to do that whenever indirectly asociated w/ crime not culpable for

— Antonio Solomon (@So_lo_travels) March 29, 2012

And, of course, the money tweet:

oh @toure you certainly can be exhausting.

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) March 29, 2012

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Ind711

Wow. If Andrew Breitbart were still with us, he’d be having a heyday with Touré and the insanity that this Treyvon Martin situation has become.
https://twitter.com/davidjkramer DavidKramer

WOW!
I was protesting Obama last week! I want all the profits from gas!
- https://twitter.com/davidjkramer DavidKramer
  
  Burppppp! Hey, that is mine!
- Buckeye27
  
  Great argument to a stupid argument
rm1evo

He sounds so smart and stupid at the same time.
http://www.soopermexican.com Soopermexican

but Obama is winning votes – benefiting from the tragedy… shouldn’t he give a few million votes to the Republicans?
Hiraghm

Touré
@Toure

.@AntonioSolomon @chrissyteigen Is there another violent crime cause célèbre that had a candy become part of it, enriching that company?Uhm.. how about the Holocaust? Hershey became famous for G.I.s handing Hershey bars to children in the towns we liberated from the Nazis. M&Ms were invented so G.I.s could more easily have chocolate.
DeBaliviere

I’m protesting by drinking Two If By Tea!
http://twoifbytea.com/
jsn2

Toure,

Two young black thugs recently poured
gasoline over a white kid and set him on fire. Should Exxon/Mobil be
sending money to the boys’ family?

BTW – would your other name be Moron?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7sXpxwrV4c4
http://twitter.com/BelchSpeak Honey Badger Clicker

Lets lynch skittles!
http://elcampeador.wordpress.com elcampeador

Reblogged this on et cetera* and commented:
UNBELIEVABLE!
Laurie

RevAl says they’re called “skillets candies”. Idk what these things called “skittles” are…:p
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SK4GTBXWKIYRX63JIRVP75IVPE SamIam9

After looking up who “Toure’ was I sighed loudly, rolled my eyes and mumbled “figures”.

Surely there have to be more black luminaries out there besides Sowell and Justice Thomas. Surely?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Carolina-Martinez/100000712929445 Carolina Martinez

Isn’t he a writer? Did somebody hide his dictionary (and his google)?
“obviates”: I do not think that word means what you think it means…
Erthwjim

Touré should complain about the people buying skittles and not donating. The blame lies on the customers not the company.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000116964970 Shannon Willis

Teh stupid…it burns. We wouldn’t want anyone profiting on a bona fide tragedy now would we?

http://store.barackobama.com/featured-15/collegiate-hooded-sweatshirt.html
JAMES PAINTER

Bizarre. I guess the saying is true ” you can’t make the sh*t up”
President Nimrod

There are no black skittles! Where is the Justice??? What do we want? Black Skittle! When do we want them? NOW!
http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

Any donation Skittles made, could be considered picking a side in a case that has not been tried, short of a food bank. People made the choice to buy Skittles to wave around at rallies. Skittles and tea have nothing to do with why Trayvon was followed, and shot. Yes, it’s what he purchased, but that isn’t why he was “targeted” as suspicious. And I doubt Skittles likes being in the middle of such a volatile high profile case, either. Why not make cell phones, gold teeth and hoodies the symbols, instead of skittles and tea? If anything, those possibly had more to do with any profiling or targeting Zimmeman might have done, than candy. Is Toure demanding hoodie companies donate their profits?
http://profile.yahoo.com/I3K5BQNSV6AQGBNXIUFBLZ75KM Michael

Well, well, well, Now we know who will take over the mantle for shaking down corporations once Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton retire.
sgt_joe_rock

seems like this administration is out to turn the US into a race against race issue so that he can declare marshal law and be in complete control like the dictator he believes he is. we need to unite as one and remember the trigger puller will meet his creator and be the only and true judge.
http://twitter.com/PatrikHenry1775 Patric Henry

Too much DRAMA!!!!!!! STOP EVERYONE!!! IT IS OUT OF HAND!! I think that
we all should Pray for Trayvon Martins soul to rest in peace. Dear God
please put out all these fires. and let the soul of Trayvon Martin rest
in peace for only you know the truth! Amen

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