what's wrong with this picture?
While the rest of the blogosphere is debating whether or not this Sony Playstation billboard image (apparently part of a trilogy) is racist (I'm gonna vote yes), I am reminded to put up this image which I came across last month in Southwest Airlines' in-flight magazine:
Can somebody please explain to me why, in an ad for Children's Cancer Hospital, this black boy is posed at the intersection of Plantation Valley Drive? Does he live there?
posted by Carla at 4:32 PM
5 Comments:
What is interesting is the other playstation ad which tries to "reverse" the dynamic...but doesn't quite seem to do so.
DId the advertisers for Bennetton have a come back in their career?
Wow, Carla. Those images are both disturbing. (My vote is for racist as well.)
Shaking my head, not in disbelief but in disgust.
oh my lord...
plantation valley. are they fucking kidding me
Nubian, I've been reading your blog all morning--small world!
Yeah, what goes through the mind, the many minds that create and sign off on this stuff?! Do they really not see it? Is it possible to be that unaware? I think I'd rather believe they're malicious than to believe anyone could conceivably be that clueless. Such is the nature of ingrained thinking, I guess, created and reinforced by precisely this kind of advertising.
What is frightening is people, most likely racisit whites, in advertising see slipping something in the background as "Plantation Way" a test to see who will approve it and finally publish it. In effect, outing other racists. What will they do next?
As for Sony. I am writing them to let them know how offensive and racist their image is. We must be heard.
A sad world we live in.
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