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Kelloggs accused of racism over cereal box illustration

Not a great way to start the day

Cereal giant Kelloggs has been accused of racism by a very unhappy customer, after he noticed something untoward on a box of their food.

Saladin Ahmed spotted that on his box of Corn Pops, there was an illustration featuring hundreds of the pops going about their day-to-day business at a shopping mall.

Some of them are playing games, some are skateboarding, some are shopping, and others are taking selfies.

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However, only one of them appeared to have brown skin – and he happened to be the janitor, cleaning the floor.

Saladin posted the image on Twitter, where it quickly gathered over a thousand retweets, plus thousands of replies and supportive likes.

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Nancy Brown
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