C Darwin said:
I don't think Dallas Clark is a poor player, but I think the ad implies a
few things. First, blacks get off on the humiliation of whites. Look
how much fun it is to cream the white guy. The laughter of a group
of blacks would be less likely if Clark made a "move" to escape from
the defenders.
You didn't pay enough attention to the ad. There was a black guy laughing in the background, but there was also most definitely a white guy or two, most notably tha one who said "I can't stand this, I'm gonna go get a sandwich".
Thus, I believe that you are incorrect in this assumption, at least in this case. I do know for a fact, however, that there are a lot of blacks who do laugh at whites who they consider "corny" or whatever, but I don't think that was the intention of this ad.
C Darwin said:
Second, The laughter it's self implies an inferiority to
the victors of the play. Having played other versions of the game my
self, I can say that the "hit" on the ad was not very spectacular. The
enjoyment of the players came completely from the racial dynamic of
the play.
Surely, you're joking. It was a big hit duyring a football game, and the entire point of the ad was to show off the new animations for big hits in madden. Tjat is why there was so much excitement. People were not laughing simply because the player getting hit was white.
Such an assumption is just ridiculous. You're saying that if there was a black person getting hit, or maybe a white person doing the hitting, that nobody would have gawked at the big hit and the new animation?
C Darwin said:
The display of dominance and the humiliation of whites in this ad is
pretty clear. I believe the ad was made for blacks, I think that they
probably buy more NFL videogames than whites. Why not give them
what they want?
No, that's doubtful given the typical american racial economic demographic. Whites are overall bigger consumers of electronic equipment than anyone else.
C Darwin said:
The ad is offensive to me for two reasons. The first is because I
acknowledge the caste system and I am sick of the message that
whites are undeserving of the "skill positions". I believe this ad
reinforces this message. Second, you could NEVER put a black in a
loosing situation if it were a matter of intelligence. The double
standard makes me puke.
You're right, double standards do exist in some areas. I simply don't believe this to be one of them.
C Darwin said:
The Tomlenson ad was meant to be cute. If it were a black boy and
Tom Brady, I would see it the same way.
I have to say that, given what I've seen from this site over the years, that I would doubt that claim. But in any case, I digress with that one.
C Darwin said:
The black guy in the
Snickers commercial only looks goofy if you believe that all blacks
are "cool".
Imagine that, a well-groomed black with the ability
to interact civilly and show an understanding of something other
than hip-hop. What a goof!
I sense a little hypocrisy here.
You're saying that a well groomed black is a-ok, and that I should never believe him to be a goof for being so. You believe, therefore,that this ad would be in no way negative to whites. Fair enough.
However, I hear things on this site regularly that talk about how the caste system shows whites to be weak when it puts these same well groomed blacks into ads and makes the whites look less well groomed. You guys tend to scream blue murder whenever such an ad is aired.
And yet, now you're telling me that the well groomed black in this ad is in fact a good thing.
So, basically, a well groomed black in an ad is ok, but NOT when it involves whites who are not as well groomed. Or, in other words, a well groomed black is ok ONLY if the whites are not portrayed as any less well groomed.
Am I right? Correct me if I am wrong.