Butt the Fuck Out, America
People from Australia, Bermuda, Bangladesh, Canada, Ireland, Scotland, Kenya, India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Pakistan, Netherlands, West Indies, England, New Zealand, and Zimbabwe know all about the friendly competitiveness that all these countries enjoy when it comes to cricket.
Enter America – who knows pretty much fuck all about the sport and did anyone else notice how they’re NOT players of the sport – wading in wearing their big daddy boots ready to smack us on the ass for a racist commercial.
Here’s the commercial:
KFC Ad – Being Stuck In An Awkward Situation
Now… I don’t know what it’s like in the good ole US of A, but here it’s quite common to get a shitty seat that usually has you sitting in with the opposing team’s fans. It happens in cricket and it even happens in football where all us good white folk are just white folk and our “colours” are those of the footy team we support. Had that commercial been a bunch of Bombers fans surrounding a West Coast Eagle fan, nothing would have been said.
Here’s another ad from the same series of commercials:
Thank God the Victim Wasn\'t Black
And, once again, I state Thank GOD the victim wasn’t black. No one said anything because it was a white man, I’m sure. No complaints came from this ad.
Oddly, no one from the West Indies complained about the first ad. Just like Australia, they found the ad funny and didn’t look for the racial overtones that America prides itself on.
See that? AMERICA thought the ad was racist, but the countries involved in the commercial didn’t.
Obama – you’re a fucking president of a country that isn’t ours. Go back to your fashion bullshit and keep your nose out of things that don’t pertain to you.
KFC – you’re pussies for pulling the ad because of another country’s stupidity.
Seriously.
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This American agrees! I saw the commercial, I admit I laughed at it and was not offended at all.
The world is full of over-sensitive dumbasses.
I like to think I’m not one of them.
If you don’t see the difference between the two ads you posted; then I can understand your ignorance in not understanding why the first KFC ad was perceived as racist.
The mere fact that you brought up the fact that West Indian people (people raised in the West Indies), as a justification as to how the ad isn’t racist further proves you know little about race relations.
Honestly, do you really not see a difference in the two commercials (other than the crowd members ethnicities)? If not, let me point out the obvious. In the first, a white man who appears to be very calm at a cricket match (which is a lie in and of itself), is around a bunch of black people who are yelling and shouting. The only way the calm civilized white man is able to tame the black people is by giving them fried chicken — a food that is often associated with the only thing black people like to eat. What is even more ironic is that KFC didn’t want American eyes to see this ad, proves the point that they knew it was racist.
And contrary to the other point you are trying to make, if the crowd members in the second commercial were black, there wouldn’t be any outrage — one, because the crowd members seem calm (I realize it is a tennis match, but in either case, black people are often stereotyped as being loud), and, two, because the white man isn’t feeding everyone fried chicken.
Actually, I brought up the West Indies because that was who the ad had in it and they were also the people NOT upset at the ad. Did you even read it?
Also, while fried chicken might be a “black thing” in the United States, it’s not a black thing in the West Indies. Their favourite foods are bara, pelau and roti – none of which is “fried chicken”.
I can tell you’re an American because you’re ignorant and stupid enough to put your fucked up morals on another country when none of it applies.
Get yourself an education, sweetie.