I think that the people who created the black Bart t-shirt were just trying to say "Hey we're human too" or something along those lines. Yes creating the t-shirt was illegal and they probably shouldn't have done it, but I don't blame them. The t-shirt was created so that the minorities could feel like they were part of this world too and that they weren't just overlooked. Everything in today's society is about the majority/whites and everyone else is just overlooked because of their race. Yes its stupid but its something called life. People took offense to the black Bart Simpson because on TV he portrays the white kid who gets into trouble. Parents thought that by buying their children these black Bart t-shirts, they were saying that they could kinda follow the image of the character. Bart wasn't always the bad kid who got into trouble all of the time. He was the kid that loved to skateboard and make his dad mad. He is portrayed as always being bad but half of the time he isn't. I mean he's in elementary school for christ sake. Let him be a child and who cares if he was created into a "black" kid.