Posted on 09/08/2009 5:30:07 AM PDT by Bulldawg Fan
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I eagerly await the reversed roles in the next McDonald's commercial: little black pimpy guy meekly serves big white guy and is too stupid to realize what is going on.
Won't happen. Neither will it happen that I go to McDonalds again.
Really? That’s your definition of man-hating? lame.
I stopped going to McDonalds when they made it clear that they were only interested in serving black people.
Just about every commercial on tv makes stupid white guy commercials, not just MeDonalds. It’s a requirement.
Remember this?
Red Stripe Reggae Dance Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7tRCfSuMTY
Wow. What a lame post.
Dude
Your kidding, right?
Pre-caffinated, should be “You’re kidding, right?”
One has to be blind not to see the massive increase in the number of non-caucasians in general on TV and most films.
The token black, gay and woman always seem to appear. And not just that, but in positions of authority.
I’m not old, but I remember certain folks were usually cast in roles like garbageman, bell hop, pimp, etc.
That’s Affirmative Action for you.
If/when I watch TV, I find myself watching shows like ‘Dragnet’, ‘ADAM-12’ and ‘Peter Gunn’.
To me those shows represent the American I grew up in, and the country as a whole was a hell of a lot better than it is today!!!
Perhaps the post is lame. But there are lame posts and super lame posts, ans there are lame commercials and super lame commercials. This commercial is super lame and once again white men are denigrated. McDonalds sandwiches give me diarhea so I dont eat their mystery meat anyway, but this is another reason to keep away from them.
If it’s just two guys on a team, with one of them pimping all the glory, I don’t see how it’s particularly ‘man hating’. Maybe it’s because I’m from New England, but it almost looks like a Brady parody to me.
How is the white guy being denigrated? He’s obviously the highest paid guy on the team. Are you suggesting there’s no arrogant, egotistical black athletes?
Maybe its the subservience and pimpish look that bothers me, even if it doesnt bother others here.
How is that “man hating”?
Your comments indicate you have a black/white issue, correct?
Me neither. A 25 year-old addiction to Big Macs ends today.
But then you have another man in the same commercial with nothing subservient about him at all. Your discomfort is not with ‘man hating’, it’s with the white guy having to grovel to the black guy.
You might be right that McDonald’s knows such a dynamic appeals to its black customers, because blacks perceive some truth to it. But it’s also a dynamic that tends to have some validity in football. The quarterback is usually a white guy, and he gets an outsized share of the team’s glory.
The smart woman-stupid man commercials are annoying, and I don’t like them. In their own way they are condescending to women as well. But they are also a turnaround on decades more of smart man-stupid woman advertising, and they are still playing against type for a stereotype that continues today.
Saturday mornings at McDonalds is generally “Divorced Dad visitation weekend breakfast.” That is the place kids ask Dad to take them for thier weekend with Dad breakfast and they generally do.
We have to remember, when it comes to commercials men 24-45 have been vanishing from the advertising landscape. That commercials was made for women and for minorities because that is the target audience.
Remember the Old Navy commercial where the white family has all white children with one mixed race child and then it flashes to a smile of the actress playing the mother?
These commercials are not generated in the United States, they are generated in the hate america first mindset of NYC ad houses.
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Watch this commercial closely.
This is the future the current ruling class has planned for whites, republicans, conservatives, patriots.
Today kids in classrooms across America are getting Lesson One about the strong, dominate black man who can give them the leadership their ineffectual parents cannot provide.
What if McDonalds ran the same exact commercial with the roles of the black guy and white guy reversed?
What wopuld be the reaction if the white guy was depicted as confident and dominant and the black guy was depicted as the clueless delivery boy?
That’s weird, I see all races of people at McDonalds!!
This needs a thread?
Go to Wendy’s.
Better yet- do what most of us do- mute the ads.
The guy reminded me of Jim McMahon, back in the glory days of Da Bears.
Hell, that’s nothin! How about Burger King’s commercial showing people with deformed ‘tiny’ hands! Do these assholes even know there are people like this who have suffered genetic deformities???????????
Dude, you have issues.
First, there's nothing man-hating or racist about this -- it's yet another remake of the little man with a big attitude spiel that's been around for years.
???? How does this silly commercial denigrate white guys ????
I thought it was funny and yes Im a white guy. Sounds like you may be a little thin skinned to me.
Is it the subservience that bothers you, or the perception of the white quarterback with the over-inflated ego being subservient to a black man? IOW, would you be okay with it if it were a black quarterback and a white lineman, or if it was a white lineman?
Ahhhh....those were the days! ;)
And yet wasn’t it McDonalds that, not that long ago, had a bunch of women and men in an elevator, one-upping each other in order of rank, to get the breakfast bag, ending with the CEO handing over the breakfast to the scrawny, pasty-white IT guy?
He’s not on the team. He’s just the gopher.
I think there IS a great deal of racism in this commercial - the preening, pretty white boy who isn’t man enough to be on team, who performs menial services, whose expression of comradeship is dismissed by the black athlete.
To put it bluntly, he’s the black guy’s bitch.
They know who their target audience is.
Even better, start channel surfing when the ads begin.
For those with hang-ups and issues, Chick-Fil-A uses racially balanced black and white Holstein cows in their ads, so give them your business!
Chik-Fil-A also has not veered from its Christian foundations, either.
ping!
Ask yourself why so many people are so sensitive about this sort of thing now. Is it because for 50 years, we have heard about the oppressed, ill treated black man? Now the shoe is on the other foot so expect a keen awareness of this sort of thing.
I don’t go to MacDonalds but maybe a few times a YEAR.... and there’s one close to my house. I have YET to get what I actually ordered or ANYTHING like courtesy when I call their attention to the fact.
The employees are ALL dirty... dirty hair, dirty wrinkled shirts, bad skin, BAD attitude.... Actually NOTHING BUT ATTITIDE! Who needs it?
I think the Food and Concept of McDonalds is the real crime ...
Just heard about it from your description now. It took me a while to figure it out - I am assuming the message here is that she obviously got pregnant by someone besides her husband rather than the couple adopted a mixed race child?
It’s just trying to be funny. It’s not a particularly good or memorable commercial, but its not notably man hating or anti-white man in any significant way.
Oh for heaven’s sake. Of all the things to be upset about.....I don’t see anything anti-male or racial in it at all. Maybe that’s because I just see a stupid commercial who’s joke was clear as could be from the beginning.
Yes. There is also the Johnstown sausage company commercial where the husband is cooking outdoors and the wife hits him in the head with cooking utensil. I buy Kahns.
I was in McDs the other day and ordered a couple double cheeseburgers, a fry, and a coke ... I give the girl (who is of a certain ethnic background) a $5 bill for the $4.22 spent ... I get back 7 dimes and 8 pennies for change.
I casually asked if she was out of quarters and she said “I have plenty of quarters, I keep running out of dimes.”
You are absolutely correct. Watch TV and you will see that the white guy is always the idiot, moron, asking stupid questions or making idiotic comments. Conversely, the black guy is always the expert. He is telling us about insurance, automobiles, medicines, etc. and giving us relative statistics and facts. He never trips over the water cooler, says something stupid nor does he ask idiotic questions or make nonsense comments. It is pathetic.
Personally I am of the opinion the heat came from the Jesse Jackson types to the Advertising Community.
If McDonald’s is racist - white people need to STOP taking their children there. If they feel they can stay in business with only liberals eating there - or only blacks - good luck to ‘em. They’ll need it.
Because their products are purchased by females.
Well said.
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