So is it racist to...

[her209]

have an African-American family grubbin on fried chicken in a KFC commercial?

 

[FoBoT]

not on the WB

oops, what about that?

 

[BDawg]

Originally posted by: her209
have an African-American family grubbin on fried chicken in a KFC commercial?

I thought the same thing when I saw that commercial...if it were only black families, the answer would be yes...or if there were watermellon.

 

[BG4533]

Why would that be racist?

 

[FrustratedUser]

Why should it be?

 

[Balt]

The answer is yes. Remember when Nissan(?) got in so much trouble for the gold tooth incident? That was obviously racist as well.

[/sarcasm]

 

[nater]

nothing wrong with it. It's not stereotyping, it's just a black family eating chicken. I hate how people look way too far into the smallest things.

 

[flxnimprtmscl]

Originally posted by: BDawg
...or if there were watermellon.

Lol, that struck me as very funny for some reason

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: Balt
The answer is yes. Remember when Nissan(?) got in so much trouble for the gold tooth incident? That was obviously racist as well.

[/sarcasm]

How could it be?
Is is racist to have white people in a comercial for cars?

 

[ScottyB]

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl

Originally posted by: BDawg
...or if there were watermellon.

Lol, that struck me as very funny for some reason

Like instead of a free cake, a free watermellon.

 

[Shawn]

No, because we all know that african americans love chicken.




j/k

Racist probably not.... but stereotyping maybe. I haven't seen the commercial.

 

[Wallydraigle]

Originally posted by: nater
nothing wrong with it. It's not stereotyping, it's just a black family eating chicken. I hate how people look way too far into the smallest things.

It wasn't the chicken eating that did it for me, it was the fact that the dude was wearing a straw hat and overalls, and the chick had her hair tied up in a bandana, a la Aunt Jemima. I could almost accept all that as just coincidence, but did they really have to make them all barefoot? I mean, come on! If just one of the seven kids had shoes on it wouldn't have been quite so bad. Even so, did they have to have TWO of the kids walk in with watermelons under their arms? I'm not even going to talk about when the youngest child says to the chicken, "Yousa tinken yousa people gonna die?"

Yeah, tell me that wasn't racist

 

[ElFenix]

how bout the two fat black guys eating subway?

 

[Wallydraigle]

WTH!!:|

 

[Gunslinger08]

Racism is what you make of it. If you think stereotyping = racism, then you should really be pissed at marketing companies. It's also a double standard. It's impossible to be racist against whites.

 

[Martin]

Originally posted by: flxnimprtmscl

Originally posted by: BDawg
...or if there were watermellon.

Lol, that struck me as very funny for some reason

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