Susan G Komen bullying other cancer charities? Shame

Is Susan G Komen becoming the Wal-Mart of cancer charities, overpowering mom and pop charities and even threatening them if they dare use the color pink? Raising money for cancer is obviously a good cause, but bullying other charities seems like a waste of donor dollars — especially when none of these small charities is any kind of threat to the Komen global empire. I’m not sure I’d want to be donating to a cancer organization that was using my dollars to sue other cancer fundraisers. If I wanted to spend my money that way, I’d just give it to the Trial Lawyers Association. (Don’t hold your breath.)  And, by the way, pink is not a copyrighted color. If it were, Pinky from Happy Days could sue Komen et al. And Komen didn’t patent the idea of raising money for breast cancer. Maybe the American Cancer Society should sue them?

Or, maybe, all of these groups should knock off the effort to be the Big Dawg on the block and just join the cause to raise money for a cure to cancer. (Ooops, I used “for a cure” in that sentence. I hope I don’t get sued.) Spend the money on research, not lawyers.

Check out the HuffPo story about the Susan G Komen going after other charities using the word “cure.”

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