So... if I give a black person African-American some fried chicken it is racist. If I recognise that it would be racist to do so, so I don't, then that is not racist?
"Aren't you going to offer me some fried chicken?"
"No, because you are African-American."
Yeah, this really works.
Personally I don't find it racist but if this ad were to air in the US there would be riots in the streets, seriously, it would be all over every news feed and talking head, there would be calls to boycott and vandalism and violence.
In the US there is a stereotype about black people with fried chicken and watermelon.
Watched it again, to make the stereotype worse the blacks are banging on bongo drums. The only thing that could possibly make it worse would be if the blacks had bones thu their noses.
You have obviously never watched "The Turtleman" - a USA show whilst in company of an Australian. The guy goes around catching turtles and going hunting C**NS. That draws a very different racial inference in Aus.
Horses for Courses. When in Rome.........
I seem to have struck a nerve! Just pointing out the differences in cultures that's all.
In the US community organizers like Obama and all the race hucksters would be out with the media blitz, coordinating street protests and you could be sure several KFC's would get burned down.
And as I have said several times, I don't find it offensive.
Would a Scot see racism in this ? :
A tourist enters a tavern in Scotland, the only other man in the bar sides up to him and says "you see that stone wall over there? I built it with me own two hands, do they call me McGregor the wall builder? NO!"
Then he says, "You see that pier out there on the loch? built it with me own two hands, do they call me McGregor the pier builder? NO!"
He takes a sip of his whiskey, sighs and mumbles, " but you f@#k one sheep....
Throw 'kfc tv ad withdrawn racist' into google and you get a heap of results, this Australian ad shown on Australian TV was withdrawn in early 2010 due to complaints in the USA where it was taken out of context.
And it they were apparently portraying West Indians, not African Americans.
When Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls released their debut album in 1987 they were advised to change their name to Paul Kelly and the Messengers due to possible racial connotations in the USA. Subsequent albums were released as the 'Coloured Girls' in Australia and the 'Messengers' in the USA.
That's the difference between our country and yours Beagle Buggy.
I think there are some sensitive Aussies though - apparently there was a movie that took the p!ss out of an Islam prophet made in the USofA recently that made a few 'Aussies' upset.
I just don't get it...I'll go put my head in to my bucket of sand now.
