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Jackson Lee blasts 'demeaning' Pepsi Super Bowl ad
The Hill ^ | 02/09/11 08:56 AM ET | Pete Kasperowicz

Posted on 02/09/2011 10:41:43 AM PST by BradtotheBone

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) took to the House floor Tuesday night to criticize what she called a "demeaning" Pepsi ad that aired during the Super Bowl.

In the ad for Pepsi Max, a black woman sitting on a park bench gets angry with her husband after an attractive, white female jogger sits down next to the couple and smiles and waves at the man.

After the man smiles back, his girlfriend or wife gets angry and whips her Pepsi Max can at him. The man ducks, and the can hits the attractive jogger in the head. The ad is titled "Love hurts."

Jackson Lee said it was ridiculous for the soft drink maker to air the advertisement during African-American history month.

"In this month of African-American history where we're trying to celebrate what is good and great, it certainly seems ridiculous that Pepsi would utilize this kind of humor," she said. "It was not humorous. It was demeaning — an African-American woman throwing something at an African-American male and winding up hitting a Caucasian woman."

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: ads; domesticviolence; jacksonlee; pepsi; racism; superbowl
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To: BradtotheBone

Back to RC Cola.


121 posted on 02/09/2011 12:00:46 PM PST by screaminsunshine (34 States)
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To: PGR88
Right on. Any white who isn't outraged by this is PC sick.

122 posted on 02/09/2011 12:01:37 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: Frantzie; wardaddy
You get it.

I find it amazing that so many freepers think it's hilarious when a white woman gets knocked unconscious by blacks, who laugh and run away while she may be dying on the ground.

123 posted on 02/09/2011 12:03:32 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic is now on Kindle.)
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To: ColdOne

waits on a daily basis to be offended

I would love the opportunity to REALLY offend silverback queen sheila.


124 posted on 02/09/2011 12:05:16 PM PST by dusttoyou ("Progressives" are wee-weeing all over themselves, Foc nobama)
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To: HamiltonJay
"but hardly was any of it meant to relay any social commentary"

I have a box of higly valuable wampum beads, and I'd like to buy your land. You sound like a very nice person who knows when to take advantage of a deal. Really sharp. Penetrating mind.

125 posted on 02/09/2011 12:05:21 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic is now on Kindle.)
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To: BradtotheBone
Lots of different opinions on FR. When the ad came out, a lot of Freepers were offended by the ad. Now, a lot of Freepers are offended because SJL was offended by the ad. I didn't see it. Haven't bought Pepsi since they changed their logo to an Obama ad.

I've always wondered what the reaction would have been to the movie "Men in Black" if Tommy Lee Jones had capped a cutout of a black girl and reasoned that "she was in a white neighborhood and her books were too advanced for her.

126 posted on 02/09/2011 12:06:11 PM PST by Richard Kimball
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To: Travis McGee

Freepers never surprise you and I at times

it’s a fluid room as we well know


127 posted on 02/09/2011 12:06:17 PM PST by wardaddy ("Out Here" by Josh Thompson pretty much says it all to those who will never understand anyhow)
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To: BradtotheBone

I thought the black woman was a parody of Moochelle keeping good food out of her husband’s mouth. The only thing missing was a big eared blue lipped ignoramus as her foil.


128 posted on 02/09/2011 12:06:42 PM PST by depressed in 06 (The only thing the ZerO administration is competent at is bad ideas.)
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To: PGR88

>>>>I found it demeaning to white women<<<<

So did I


129 posted on 02/09/2011 12:06:57 PM PST by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God!)
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To: telebob

You’re a moron - that’s my ruling.


130 posted on 02/09/2011 12:07:56 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic is now on Kindle.)
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To: wardaddy

If this is “conservatism” then I think we passed the tipping point and we’re halfway over the falls. All that remains is to see who shall be swimming away from the disaster alive.


131 posted on 02/09/2011 12:12:19 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic is now on Kindle.)
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To: tgusa
SJL is an affront to the great state of Texas.

Yes, and when my wife and I found out that we would be moving to Houston due to her job, we investigated Houston and surrounding areas and decided that we would not live in SJL's district. We bought a home just across the county line in Montgomery County where we have a decent conservative Congress critter, and outside the influence of the Houston liberals and homo mayor, and also other objectionable groups like Quanell 10th and followers.

Life is good in Conservative Texas.

132 posted on 02/09/2011 12:12:19 PM PST by rightly_dividing (1 Cor. 15:1-4)
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To: BradtotheBone

SJL sets back the black race a few years every time she opens her pie hole. Aren’t they embarrassed?


133 posted on 02/09/2011 12:12:45 PM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: BradtotheBone
Not that the commercial was funny at all... But when you think about the Chuck-E-Cheese fight, and then the more recent IHOP fight (both can be found on YouTube) I don't see that the actions protrayed are all that far off of the mark.

Raven6

134 posted on 02/09/2011 12:14:26 PM PST by Raven6 (The sword is more important than the shield, and skill is more important than either.)
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To: 1000 silverlings

Good point.


135 posted on 02/09/2011 12:19:08 PM PST by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: BradtotheBone

Ok I just watched it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mjRU6b4ecw&feature=player_embedded

It is not racist it is just plain stupid.


136 posted on 02/09/2011 12:20:50 PM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama:If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun (the REAL Arizona instigator))
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To: Travis McGee

Thanks. I was not being overly sensitive but when I saw the ad I was shocked. If two white people had done that to a black woman - there would have been hell to pay. They just ran away like it was a joke.

If that happened in real life it would be called assault.

Hilarious getting hit by an aluminum can filled with soda in the temple and almost being knocked unconcious.

It just follwos the Madison Ave. template where blacks and other minorities are wise or cool and whites are stupid. It is usually stupid white men. Liberals love this stuff. Eff Pepsico and their Lays division too.


137 posted on 02/09/2011 12:24:55 PM PST by Frantzie (HD TV - Total Brain-washing now in High Def. 3-D Coming soon)
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To: BradtotheBone

I found the white chick hot, but then again I’m pure “Children of the Corn” pale face evil, and I hate myself.


138 posted on 02/09/2011 12:26:07 PM PST by junta (S.C.U.M. = State Controlled Unreliable Media)
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To: Travis McGee

I wonder if he or she would laugh if it was their sister, daughter, mother or wife? “Hilarious” in that the woman was almost knocked unconcious.


139 posted on 02/09/2011 12:27:50 PM PST by Frantzie (HD TV - Total Brain-washing now in High Def. 3-D Coming soon)
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To: MEGoody
The only one that was remotely entertaining was the little kid in the Darth Vader costume.

We liked the Coke commercial with the border guards at our house.

140 posted on 02/09/2011 12:28:11 PM PST by Pan_Yan
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