EASTON, Pa. – 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.”
Deborah Campbell, 25, said she phoned in her order last week to the ShopRite. When she told the bakery department she wanted her son’s name spelled out, she was told to talk to a supervisor, who denied the request.
A store manager at ShopRite referred questions to a corporate spokeswoman who did not immediately return a phone message Tuesday. But spokeswoman Karen Meleta told The Easton Express-Times for Sunday’s editions that the store considered Campbell’s request inappropriate.
The Campbells ultimately got their cake decorated at a Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania, Deborah Campbell said. About 12 people attended the birthday party on Sunday, including several children who were of mixed race, according to Heath Campbell.
“If we’re so racist, then why would I have them come into my home?” he asked.
The Campbells’ other two children also have unusual names: JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell turns 2 in a few months and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell will be 1 in April.
Heath Campbell said he named his son after Adolf Hitler because he liked the name and because “no one else in the world would have that name.” He sounded surprised by all the controversy the dispute had generated.
Campbell said his ancestors are German and that he has lived his entire life in Hunterdon County. On Tuesday he wore a pair of black boots he said were worn by a German soldier during World War II.
He said he was raised not to avoid people of other races but not to mix with them socially or romantically. But he said he would try to raise his children differently.
“Say he grows up and hangs out with black people. That’s fine, I don’t really care,” he said. “That’s his choice.”
I know I can’t believe them bastards wouldn’t write his name on the cake either! What kind of world do we live in where Hitler can’t even celebrate his own birthday!? WTF
(Seriously who cares what is written on a cake? I’ll put a dick on your cake.)
I want two kids, names as follow; Super Crappy Poor Person Slayer and Society Sucks My Rifle Barrel Junior
A friend of mine moved to mississippi for a teaching care and when she got there, she met a nice lady in a convenient store that happened to name her daughter Asshole. Yes Asshole. When my friend asked why she named her daughter this, the woman replied with, “I saw it on a bathroom stall and liked the spelling.”
You think that’s bad? My aunt is a nurse and helps deliver babies. One woman named her twin boys Table and Chair. I shit you not. Another woman named her twins Regina and Vagina. They asked her if she knew what a vagina was and she just said “Yea, but I like the way that sounds! Regina and Vagina, I like that.” People do the dumbest shit. Like how do they not realize their kids are going to be pissed off that they have the most idiotic names ever?
