Right Voices

Denied his name on a birthday cake, and over the past 2 years, a swastika was also denied :

The father of 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell, denied a birthday cake with the child’s full name on it by one New Jersey supermarket, is asking for a little tolerance. Heath Campbell and his wife, Deborah, are upset not only with the decision made by the Greenwich ShopRite, but with an outpouring of angry Internet postings in response to a local newspaper article over the weekend on their flare-up over frosting.

“I think people need to take their heads out of the cloud they’ve been in and start focusing on the future and not on the past,” Heath Campbell said Tuesday in an interview conducted in Easton, on the other side of the Delaware River from where the family lives in Hunterdon County, N.J.

“There’s a new president and he says it’s time for a change; well, then it’s time for a change,” the 35-year-old continued. “They need to accept a name. A name’s a name. The kid isn’t going to grow up and do what (Hitler) did.”

Here is where I tell you again, I am not a parent BUT.. Don’t you parents usually pick a name that may have been a beloved relative or friend or might just be a name that always brought you happiness?  Can you imagine what this kid faces in life?

Ed:

You know, nothing says Happy Birthday to a toddler like a big ol’ swastika in the middle of a birthday cake.