Computerized Racist Cold Shoulder.

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In this great clip, above, now cresting the web, two store employees join across “racial lines” to show that Hewlett-Packard needs to go back to the drawing board. That is, they better if they want their machines to work on a predominantly Black planet.

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#1 Yinka on 12.30.09 at 9:50 am

Wow! ‘the worst part is i bought this for xmas! LOL!!! ridiculous!

#2 Elizabeth on 12.30.09 at 8:29 pm

We received our first digital camera for Christmas, a joint gift from my siblings-in-law and their partners, and they were explaining the features: auto-focus, image stabilization, light correction… “and, unlike HP, it can actually recognize black people!”

Oh, I’m sure HP doesn’t hate black people. It just kind of forgot they exist. Woopsy!

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