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Originally Posted by JamCan
Both of you have good points.
But that could connotate the "good and evil" thing as well MissB. Like angels and the dark side.  Who knows. |
Right! That's my point... Good = White and Black= Evil is one of those societal connotations that has been applied to PEOPLE... so when a company plays off of the good v evil by using Black v. White... they exacerbate a belief system that is inextricably linked to our race...
I didn't make this up... it's been studied and theorized...for ages. There is a whole body of study called Critical Race Theory...
And VW received a lot of criticism from the black community when this ad first aired... so much so, that it pulled it from it's ad campaign immediately. Did they intend it to be racist? I doubt it. But my question is, were there any Black executives sitting around the table when they came up with it? Doubt that too...