[Video] Ad Company to Pull Race-Tinged NYC Anti-Abortion Billboard

Watch that video then read this for the background context:

“A Manhattan billboard displayed over Sixth Avenue in SoHo has sparked an intense controversy, and displays yet another instance of racist tactics employed against a woman’s right to choose. The billboard shows an image of a young African-American girl; the text reads: “The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb.” Below the text is a link to a website.

The group behind the billboard, Life Always, said that it was timed to coincide with Black History Month, and will be part of a nationwide campaign. On their website, they say that the campaign is designed to raise awareness about abortion’s impact on the “sustainability” of the African-American population. Their goal is “to expose the truth about how Planned Parenthood targets minority neighborhoods as they perform over 300,000 abortions a year.””

Read the full article HERE.

Are y’all f-cking KIDDING me?? Michel Faulkner, you and your Life Always group should be ashamed of yourselves for this noxious, racially-charged act of irresponsibility. *Smdh….*

[Video] Is the Pepsi MAX® ‘Love Hurts’ Super Bowl Ad Racist (or Sexist)?

Via TheLoop21.com:

“Pepsi’s aptly title ‘Love Hurts’ commercial for Pepsi Max features a dark skinned black woman who keeps violently ‘touching’ her man in an extreme effort to control his diet, for his own good of course. The guy merely suffers the abuse as he is kicked (ha ha), shoved face down in a pie (ha ha ha) and slapped in the mouth with a bar of soap as he hides in the tub trying to eat an outlawed doughnut (ha ha ha ha). In the final sequence, the guy sits on a bench drinking a Pepsi Max on the sly when his all seeing woman appears and gives him a brief reprieve; Zero calorie Pepsi Max is on the allowable consumption list. Unfortunately, smiling goofily and dreamily at a random blond white woman isn’t so the black woman moves to strike him, misses, and knocks out the innocent white woman.”

Sorry, I know I’m late on this but I’ve had to watch most of the Super Bowl ads at the official Youtube channel or on Crash the Super Bowl because in Canada we actually didn’t see most of the Super Bowl ads in real time because, even if you watched the US feed of the game, they switched out the ads for Canadian ones and many of the brands did not buy time up here. That alone deserves a WTF??!, never mind this ad.

But as far as this ad goes, what y’all think?

[Video] Justin Bieber x Ozzy Osbourne – Best Buy Buy Back Super Bowl Ad

Yo, I ain’t gonna front: this was funny! ‘Daily Show’, ‘SNL’ and this (plus whatever else I’ve no doubt missed). Gotta admit that the roll-out for Justin Bieber‘s Never Say Never DVD is pretty impressive.

BTW, just gotta add this too: I hate the fact that I had to watch most of these ads after the fact online because (wack) Canadian ads got inserted into the feed for the live Super Bowl broadcast even if you watched it on the US channel in Toronto. *Smdh….*

[Videos] The Black Eyed Peas’ Super Bowl Ads for Chatter.com

These ads are a f-cking #FAIL to me. Like how Japanese animation characters never actually look Asian, how is that supposed to Will.i.am and Apl.de.ap??! They’re both so many shades off what they actually look like in real life I’m kind of offended even beyond the cloying Baby Black Eyed Peas concept!

As for their half-time show: I know cats were killing it on twitter but I actually thought it was pretty amazing from a spectacle point of view but kind of middling from a performance one. My mom for one, was thoroughly unimpressed which is not a good sign for a mega-crossover, pop/hip hop group that’s supposed to appeal to people who either say they don’t like hip hop or aren’t generally exposed to it. By comparison, like I said on twitter, she really liked Toronto’s underground political, super-group, The Freedom Writers‘ “Wake Up” track when she heard that on CKLN’s ‘Mixtape Massacre’ radio show this weekend!

[Videos] Eminem’s Super Bowl Ads: Chrysler – Imported From Detroit / Lipton Brisk Iced Tea

What y’all think of them? The Chrysler one kind of made no sense to me plus wasn’t 8 Mile like a million years ago??