Racist Ad?

They would never create such an ad, and you know it.

Your arguments are usually better than this.

The ad is racist. You are ducking and dodging.

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Words only have power if you allow it. But it's also about interpretation and how you will the words to get to you. Maybe instead of focusing on the big words, why not read what's on the other side of the whole thing to get the main point.

If you insist on it, that's fine. Me? I'm not offended by it at all. Maybe at best it's poor wording given the situation. However, I also think this will trigger more sales thanks to free advertising of the product over something trivial.

 

this would be considered racist only in America

Where I see a clean-cut man throwing away a pretty savage and unkempt former self, another person sees a negro pressured to conform to society while being frowned upon if he doesn't.

The marketing people figured more people would appreciate the ad than be offended by it, so it was released. You can't please everyone.

You'd want to incorporate more blacks into the media (which is why everyone bitches in the first place), so you put them in roles that you commonly see non-blacks in. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

 

Personally, I'm not even offended by this ad. I could care less. To me, it's no big deal. I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. Honestly, I think the only ones that should be offended by this are the people that have or had afros. I never ever had an afro, therefore I'm not offended by it. lol

 

it's funny to sit back and watch people that show conformity to civilization, raise their arms in upheaval when an ad highlights their attitudes.

it's like the chicken thing.

many black people like chicken, but when an ad comes on that pays homage to that, there is racism at work.

i don't get it.:smt015

 

I completely agree with all your points, BBW. I'm not jumping on the bandwagon either. Even though I can understand why people would call this ad racist, I think you hit the nail on the head. If it was a white guy carrying the head of a hippie or long haired bum, would we be crying foul? No way. But because it's a black guy, it just HAS to be racist. Whitey is ALWAYS out to get us and keep us down. Give me a freaking break. :roll:

People are reading way too much into this and are just being too sensitive.

 

:smt023 I completely agree with you man. I don't get it either.

 

This.

Although there is no denying that racism exists...sometimes I think people just want something to be racist so they can bitch about it. Same goes with sexism.

 

obviously

i highly doubt a majority of the guys here would go out of the house, with an afro as fucked up as that.:smt005

now they're screaming racism because this accepted standard is being exploited for profit. Unless they actually rockin' beat-up afros like that in appreciation of their hair and African heritage, they have nothing to complain about.

 

You gotta be kidding right? You're too smart to be acting this slow Broad St.
It's not the image. The words re-civilize yourself would never be used with anyone else. Why not say re-invent, re-invigorate, re-energize, re-establish yourself. Those are all positive change words that imply you were great to begin with. Re-civilize? That's some quit being a savage bullshit and that's clear encitement. You sure some you mofos didn't go to Devry's school of English Comprehension lol

 

Save your keystroakes on Bigbrotherwise...

 

Sorry BBW/Prince, but I have to agree with Andrae after he made this post. This one was the game changer. That word implies that blacks are animals and not really human beings.

 

You'd think a Black person would have said this...but not around here.

 

:smt043:smt043:smt043

 

I guess the question is what is he re-civilizing from.

Being a nappy Afro-wearing, disheveled bearded black man to a clean shaven one.

The former being somehow not civil in appearance?

What is wrong with him just trimming the beard and getting a shape up of the "fro"

This is an actual Nivea Ad, they could have paid me to come up with better than this tired, old Kunta Kinte/Roots bullshit.

To think they hired someone to come up with this. SMDH.

 

No one with common sense would equate a guy with an afro to savage behavior. That's a dishonest interpretation and furthermore only proving my point that you're elevating the picture into something much bigger than it actually is. It's just a damn hygiene product, so of course they would take some ideas and put them into perspective.

It's more accurate to say it's more to do with the old phrase "Out with the old, in with the new." Tell me, do any of you around here have an afro?

 

I wasn't equating him with savage behavior. What I think they caught on to is that they perceive that it isn't socially acceptable for black men to walk around in public with huge afros on their head. They imply "re-civilizing" as getting the afro off and appearing "normal" instead.

 

And yet, we've partake in that social transition/evolution. There's a small population of blacks who do wear afros either by black separatism or simply for cool factor, but the majority of us are either clean shaven or have a trim facial style. So in a way, it's the modern thing or the norm. It's the style we, as a society, have adapted to.

And the "socially unacceptable" bit is based on personal interpretation. I think anyone who don't quite understand that it's a hygienic product and advertising as such are really too short-sighted and simply looking at something that doesn't exist.

 

I see what you're doing and you ain't right. I need a pic with a bot of shit and a stirrer lol