Pepsi asks Tyler the Creator to develop ad dubbed racist. Quickly gets pulled & apologizes.
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Dumb ads seem to be contagious.
Soft drink giant PepsiCo says it is pulling a highly controversial commercial for Mountain Dew -- depicting five African-American men and a goat in a police line-up -- that has managed to offend African-Americans, women and bloggers coast-to-coast.
African-American rapper Tyler, the Creator, developed the 60-second spot in which a battered white woman on crutches is urged by an officer to identify a suspect out of a lineup of black men. A talking goat named Felicia is included in the lineup. The goat makes threatening remarks to the woman, including, "Keep ya mouth shut."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/05/01/pepsico-pulls-mountain-dew-ad-after-criticism/2126453/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikmhDAHesqU
Soft drink giant PepsiCo says it is pulling a highly controversial commercial for Mountain Dew -- depicting five African-American men and a goat in a police line-up -- that has managed to offend African-Americans, women and bloggers coast-to-coast.
African-American rapper Tyler, the Creator, developed the 60-second spot in which a battered white woman on crutches is urged by an officer to identify a suspect out of a lineup of black men. A talking goat named Felicia is included in the lineup. The goat makes threatening remarks to the woman, including, "Keep ya mouth shut."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/05/01/pepsico-pulls-mountain-dew-ad-after-criticism/2126453/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikmhDAHesqU Comments
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He's gonna be ? they called him african american and not white lmao
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never checked 4 dude but he gives me that vibe..He's gonna be ? they called him african american and not white lmao -
Tyler's a CAC inside a Black man's body..
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Thread title is misleading
Tyler went to Pepsi about his idea
They just marketed that ?
So for real, that ? is on Odd Future and Tyler
But coming from Tyler the Creator, is it really that shocking? -
He got picked on by the black kids in his school so he gravitated towards white people apparently.
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He got picked on by the black kids in his school so he gravitated towards white people apparently.
His whole crew is black. They just some weird ass ? hence the name Odd Future.
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FYI: Those ? are all black because all of them are members of OF
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i thought the video was funny as hell
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Rubato Garcia wrote: »
Thats what he said in some interview or some ? where he is in a mall. Its an old one. -
You can just tell that ? in how he carries himself in interviews...
Though Catch Phrase Jones was funny as hell -
Never heard of him before, but because dude doesn't sound or act stereotypically black he wants to be white?
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? was beyond wack. Not even remotely funny.
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Undefeatable wrote: »Never heard of him before, but because dude doesn't sound or act stereotypically black he wants to be white?
Bruh, can you read?? The man said that's were his words, not his. Smh -
freddy got fingered
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Undefeatable wrote: »Never heard of him before, but because dude doesn't sound or act stereotypically black he wants to be white?
Bruh, can you read?? The man said that's were his words, not his. Smh
Huh?
Anyway, I was referring to the first couple posts. -
Tyler himself has said he wants to be white. He has twitter posts bout ? where he saying raciest ? bout black history month. This has always wanted to be white lol
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Tyler himself has said he wants to be white. He has twitter posts bout ? where he saying raciest ? bout black history month. This has always wanted to be white lol
He's a huge troll. -
blacks can be racist against blacks now
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Sage Wonder wrote: »
nothing those people do surprises me -
i feel some kinda when white people take up what's racist or not
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buuuuuut
He and his click get off trolling everyone
Why is this surprising -
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atribecalledgabi wrote: »i feel some kinda when white people take up what's racist or not
Black people complained it was racist. That's why it was pulled. Now they see a black person was responsible for the ad and they are on some
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Sage Wonder wrote: »
Actually no. Racism isn't defined as such.
Actually, yes. You are thinking of supremacy. Someone can have hatred and discrimination for their own race.. There's a book floating around somewhere I seen long time ago of a black author writing about her hatred for the black race. Not sure how you can say something like this is anything other than racism, unless you substitute "racism" for "self-hatred".
