Posted on 08/03/2007 10:12:45 PM PDT by Bladerunnuh
Surely they could have come up with three plausible looking white sprinters to go with the black sprinters, and an American Indian for the office guy...
I will say there is a Capitol One ad where two old bank CEO's (one black, the other IIRC Asian) are laughing at small business (tiny little white man) attempting to pitch for a loan.
IIRC there was an old ad on the same theme (Capitol One too?) where the CEO's where old white men...maybe one was black.
ANYBODY - can one dig up a You Tube?
“I agree. Probably what happened is that the agency sent a call out for six sprinters to the local colleges and these are the guys who showed up.”
pretty sure it is the same single guy bent over, flipped and copied for all 6?
Who cares?? The power to utterly destroy the ability of non-minorities to express anything concerning or involving race just promotes an unfair power advantage to minorities in society.
Looks to me as though the ad is saying: Our technology will take one flabby, pear-shaped white guy and make him as fast and powerful as six ripped black sprinters. Where’s the racism?
The ad was not racist the reaction to the ad was..
Racist against WHITES... reverse the colors of the partipants, NO PROBLEM..
The ad has no racism. But in this day and age, any advertisement that doesn’t have the “perfect racial mix” is automatically considered racist. We are a nation of hypersensitive ninnies who don’t even know what real racism is anymore.
It looks more like the black guys are kneeling in worship of the white guy
crappy ad.....
doesn’t everyone know the rule in advertising that has been in effect circa 1980....
white males are to be stupid/clumsy/oafish/racist/sexist....
every ad is to portray women smart/white males stupid.....children smart clever/white males stupid dults....blacks ~ cool savy smart/white males stupid dults most definitely not hip
didn’t intel & ad company get the memo????
If it was a black guy in the office and 6 white guys, it would be ok.
Oh please, if it were six white guys in the sprinting pose it would be an advertisement for the slowest processor on the market! ;^)
Wheres the basketball? He would look like an NBA coach.
If they looked remotely like sprinters, this ad would work — but they look like slaves in a Roman galley.
Matter of fact, there should have been an asian, an african, a scandinavian and an eskimo in the ad.
That's true diversity. /s
Gee, I see six sprinters and a geek
I must be blind
Apparently white guys were offended that it implied that only blacks can run.
“Guess what one of the many reasons for the absolute failure of the black culture to produce much more than crack addicts, prostitutes, carjackers, killers, rapists, etc. in percentages that are staggering.”
Stop stereotyping an entire race of people; your post is just garbage. It is posts like these that idiots like BORe then pick up to claim that FReepers are “haters.” Filth.
Goddamned racist. No wonder FR is being labelled a hate site.
I guess the part about 'the content of their character and not the color of their skin' doesn't really matter.
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