Racism
[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?
[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!
[News] Ohio Woman Jailed for Sending her Kids to a Better School!
This story is from a little while ago but I had to post it still. This is f-cking outrageous:
“If you lived in a crime-ridden neighborhood where your home was broken into a dozen times and the school your children were zoned to was low-performing, wouldn’t you take drastic measures to ensure they got a quality education?
That’s exactly what Kelley Williams-Bolar did, pulling her 12- and 16-year-old daughters out of the decrepit school they attended in Akron, Ohio, and enrolling them in a suburban district where her father lived.
Williams-Bolar used her father’s address, where she alleges she lived part-time. Yet the Copely-Fairlawn School District felt she was lying about being a resident, and hired a private eye to follow her, videotaping Williams-Bolar leaving her public housing home and dropping her children off at the suburban school.
They confronted Williams-Bolar, demanded that she repay the district $30,000, saying she didn’t have the right to have her daughters in the district since she wasn’t a taxpayer.
When she refused, Williams-Bolar was indicted on two felony charges, found guilty and sentenced to 10 days in prison. Because of the felonies on her record, the aspiring schoolteacher will never be able to enter the classroom.”
Click HERE to read the rest of the article.
Related:
Read more via WEWS NewsChannel5 Cleveland.
[via the homie, Rene]
MP3 Audio: Exclusive Hot 97 Morning Show Interview w/ Vybz Kartel on his Skin-Bleaching Controversy
Now this I had to check out and post after first reading the story on Miss Info last week. All I can do after listening to this though is smdh, seriously. Truly sad….
The Hot 97 Morning Show is Cipha Sounds, Peter Rosenberg & K. Foxx.
Bonus:
Hit the jump for the Vybz Kartel “G6 Remix” by Black Chiney, Willy Chin & Bobby Chin.
[via Lo]