not a product, but questionable notwithstanding:
― Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 14:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
o_O
― nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
sorry dont want to be the clueless white guy here but... i dont get it
― max, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
black people eat greens like this.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
It's not just the greens, though! There's also:
chickenham hockspeanut buttercatfish
― nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
The Hawaiian Punch cake threw me for a grape Kool-Aid kind of loop there.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
good intentions :(
― bnw, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
ya. i almost want to argue this one but i dont think its worth the effort and im not sure how i feel about it.
― max, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
go for it, it'd be fun to watch at the very least
― s1ocki, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
Sock it to Me cake ??
― tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
i just think in the grand taxonomy of racial weirdness this aligns a lot more closely to, say, 'insensitivity' than straight-out racism--i imagine that for chinese new year theyd have the same kind of ad with, like, dumplings; or for italy day theyd do it with pasta--which strikes me as this kind of misguided "look at the culinary cultural heritage of group XXX" (esp. considering the context w/ all the facts about things black dudes have contributed to the grocery industry and the generally very positive light w/ which the ad treats black history month) and not so much "lol its negro history month lets put fried chicken on the menu"--i mean its collard greens and pork hocks, which arent exactly watermelons and grape soda, you know?
― max, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
eh fried chicken is sort of o_O--lot more baggage attached to that stereotype in America than with pasta + Italians or dumplings + Chinese people.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:31 (4 years ago) Permalink
and there's no encyclopedia of racially insensitive products thread
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
haha yeah, thats the #1 reason why im not interested in particular in throwing my weight behind these guys
― max, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
xp
You know, couldn't they have put a jar of some good peanut butter next to GWC's face, like JIF?
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
guys don't forget to watch Eisbaer's video
― blappin blappin my fresh (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
it is impt
Is there anything more I can take away from watching it besides what I see in the preview screen cap?
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
certainly more than some boring-ass racist discounts
― blappin blappin my fresh (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
ok crut1s otm
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
holee shit
― nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
got as far as "yes, Jesus loves me"
― Robin van Injury (country matters), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
BLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK
― blappin blappin my fresh (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
YEEEEAH
― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
go further, lj, it's bananas
― nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
Excuse me i am v offended by the portrayal of white people as cuntry hicks in bad denim. Also their singing style is highly influenced by ragtime & blues which as every fool knows is black music anyway.
Oh wait here comes Jose. This is a delicious smörgåsbord of terrible ideas.
― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
Sorry, did I spoil the surprise?
― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
Obv the white version should be played in totally straight time on a harpsichord and danced as a pavanne.
― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
i guess that i am good for something round here?!?
― Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:33 (4 years ago) Permalink
the inside of the small american indian puppet's mouth looks like a cartoon steak for some reason.
― Yah Trick Ya Kid K (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
Why do the black kids look like cyanotic, ashen corpses?
― i'm shy (Abbott), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
and have cheaper eyes than the other puppets?!?
― Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
"EY man, did JEEsus forget about us?""¡No way Jose – olé!"
― i'm shy (Abbott), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
omg almost had a seizure at the end
― Robin van Injury (country matters), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
Jesus DID kind of forget about Jose, who was not assigned a color that Jesus loves.
― i'm shy (Abbott), Thursday, 12 February 2009 20:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
at first I thought the black kids were vampires but then the porn music kicked in
― mullah mangenius (brownie), Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:03 (4 years ago) Permalink
what porn have you been watching that is soundtracked by the Jackson 5
― blappin blappin my fresh (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
um
― mullah mangenius (brownie), Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
It's called "80s porn"
― nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
also, "70s porn"
wah pedals are aural signifiers for BJs and stuff
― Yah Trick Ya Kid K (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
all this music kinda kicks ass i must say
― goole, Thursday, 12 February 2009 21:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
actually, the weirdest thing about the white kids segment is how it kicks in with the first few bars of "la marseillaise" -- given the whites-are-hicks theme for that segment, when did that song become a shit-kicker signifier?!?
― Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Thursday, 12 February 2009 23:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
sounds like super furry animals
― bnw, Thursday, 12 February 2009 23:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
is this racist?
― LOLBJ (Eisbaer), Monday, 2 March 2009 11:16 (4 years ago) Permalink
"i.Beat Blaxx" still cracks me up
― s1ocki kong country (cankles), Monday, 2 March 2009 13:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
Re the grocery store's salute to Black History Month, our high-school cafeteria used to serve sweet potatoes, fried chicken, greens, etc. for a couple of days during February, which a few of my friends and I were always o_O about but no one else seemed to bat an eye at. As Max suggested, I think it was more insensitive than anything else: white school administrators honestly trying to do something nice for the 25% of the student body that was African American.
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Monday, 2 March 2009 13:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
Our kid's daycare gives us a photocopied calendar each month, and January featured this caricature of Martin Luther King that looked like he had just dropped something very heavy on his foot.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 2 March 2009 18:20 (4 years ago) Permalink