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Old 06-26-2008, 03:58 PM
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Re: Racism experiment for you all

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Originally Posted by MissB View Post
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...
Like I said in the I admit thread, you never cease.

Why do some people get it and some people don't....
and some people NEVER will?
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