SAN DIEGO -- Some members of San Diego's Asian community think two Easter greetings recently sold at Target are offensive, so they are demanding the cards be pulled from store shelves.
And as of Wednesday night that demand is being heard loud and clear.
"The first thing that stands out is the rabbit with buck teeth, slanted eyes and a Chinese outfit," said Joni Low.
Low is highly upset with two Easter greeting cards recently sold at Target stores.
One card reads an "Easter Haiku -- He Hops By Each Spring. He Leaves Us Eggs He Painted. It's A Cry For Help."
Low, who is the executive director of the San Diego Asian Business Association, is calling for cultural understanding.
"It's entitled an Easter Haiku. Haiku is a Japanese poetry, so to begin they are mixing Chinese and Japanese," said Low.
And there's more that has Low upset.
"Then when you open the card up, it says 'Hoppy Easter,' which is another derogatory phrase," said Low.
Target pulled the controversial material made by Carlton Cards and apologized after Low and other Asian groups voiced their concerns.
Target shoppers told 10News what they thought about the cards.
"I think it's cute. Kids would love it," said one shopper.
"It's disturbing because it doesn't make me happy on Easter," said another shopper.
In 2002 Abercrombie and Fitch was accused of selling a racially insensitive tee-shirt.
The shirt showed two Chinese men wearing rice hats with the caption "Two Wongs Don't Make A White."
Low said if things don't change, it's time for what she called the usually mild-mannered Asian community to send a stronger message.
"Boycott the store that sells them -- boycott the company that makes them," said Low.
