Since the discovery of the color spectrum, there have always been challenges faced by certain colors. Yellow has cowardice, Blue and Red have gang violence. And of course we are all old enough to remember the whole Skittles ‘taste the rainbow’ gay propaganda scandal.
Now, in the wake of the Trump presidency, representatives for the color orange have announced plans to hire noted PR firm Pinkerton, Stevenson & McHue to repair damage done to their brand.
“We used to be a well respected color, we had carrots, we had Creamsicles, we had Beaker the Muppet. But now we’re the laughing stock of colors and that needs to change. The color orange isn’t normally associated with skin tone, so we have avoided association with racism for thousands of years. Then all of a sudden BOOM orange: racist. We knew we had to do something, …and fast.”
“At the end of the day we decided to go with PS&M after seeing the work they did for Green after that whole Monster Energy/Drywall punching situation. Things were getting pretty sketchy there for a while, granted that turned out to be pretty minor compared to the atrocities committed by that Mango Mussolini Motherf- Oh no. Uh, I mean, don’t print that. Did you know that human eyes perceive orange when observing light with a dominant wavelength between roughly 585 and 620 nanometers? Orange is the new black? Have you seen that show? This interview is over.”
When reached for comment, executives from PS&M released the following statement:
We are confident we will do for Orange what we did for Brown. Now, it may not be as easy as sticking some googly eyes on a pile of poop and calling it an emoji, but we’re up for the challenge.