Monday, February 04, 2008

What is this, 1930?

Not caring about the Super Bowl, I didn't have it on. Mr. S. was watching downstairs, and I went down to ask him something during a commercial, but stopped short when I saw this:

So what do you think... can we expect blackface gags during next year's Big Game? Should we take bets on which racist archetype gets the most airtime?

2 comments:

  1. This was the second of two commercials from this company, the first featured an Indian (subcontinent) accent. Not quite so problematic (minus the pandas or equivalent animal representative) - but we were laying odds on a tird commercial featuring a bad mexican accent.....

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  2. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/06/business/media/06adco.html?th&emc=th

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