Did we talk about this racist commercial?

[underwaterrhymes]

It's older, but Stacey Patton just posted it and holy fucking shit my jaw was on the damn floor.

m.huffpost.com/us/entry/feed-a-child-ad_n_5573892.html

[YeahSure]

Oh but they're colorblind! They don't see color! All they saw was a woman and a child!

Uh-huh. I found her "apology" as offensive as the ad.

[bina]

I have no words.

[WOT?*]

I can see the correlation they were trying to make (remember the dog abandonment commercials with the child in the back seat that becomes the dog in the rear-view mirror/window? or the little boy with the ball that is left behind in the woods when his parents drive off?) but with this being from South Africa with it's history of apartheid, they should have been MUCH more cognizant of the racial imagery of a blond/blue-eyed white "mother" feeding a poor black child like a dog. Because, like it or not, people are not color-blind. And the history of apartheid is even less so in this case.

[katfco]

I'm so tired of hearing the "I don't see color" argument. Of course you see color. What it really means is, "I choose to not recognize racial issues and I'm privileged enough that I don't have to." It's an artificial high road, placing the burden on those complaining about it.

[WOT?*]

Well said katfco .

(because it's worth more than a simple "like")

[isabel]

Holy shit. That is disturbing.

[LoveTrains]

WTF at that commercial. I am appalled.

[NewOrleans]

[WOT?*]

Jan 24, 2016 10:14:43 GMT -5 @mx said:

Jan 23, 2016 21:24:53 GMT -5 WOT?* said:

I can see the correlation they were trying to make (remember the dog abandonment commercials with the child in the back seat that becomes the dog in the rear-view mirror/window? or the little boy with the ball that is left behind in the woods when his parents drive off?) but with this being from South Africa with it's history of apartheid, they should have been MUCH more cognizant of the racial imagery of a blond/blue-eyed white "mother" feeding a poor black child like a dog. Because, like it or not, people are not color-blind. And the history of apartheid is even less so in this case.

I'm certain they were cognizant of it and did it on purpose. South Africa is the most racially fucked country I've ever visited. I really hate going there for work as a white person because the white people there expect me to enjoy their racist company.

I've never been, but as a silver linings kind of person I always hope that organizations that try to help others take a higher road. I guess not. Considering how recent apartheid has been an issue, when you compare with our Jim Crow and still-existent race issues, it shouldn't surprise me.