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Arab-American groups call Coke Super Bowl ad "racist"
Reuters.com ^ | 1/30/2013 | Reuters

Posted on 01/31/2013 6:28:43 AM PST by mykroar

(Reuters) - Arab-American groups have sharply criticized a Coca-Cola Super Bowl ad depicting an Arab walking through the desert with a camel, and one group said it would ask the beverage giant to change it before CBS airs the game on Sunday before an expected audience of more than 100 million U.S. viewers.

"Why is it that Arabs are always shown as either oil-rich sheiks, terrorists, or belly dancers?" said Warren David, president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, or ADC.

Coca-Cola released an online teaser of the commercial last week, showing the Arab walking through a desert. He soon sees cowboys, Las Vegas showgirls and a motley crew fashioned after the marauders of the apocalyptic "Mad Max" film race by him to reach a gigantic bottle of Coke.

In its ad, Coke asks viewers to vote online on which characters should win the race. The online site does not allow a vote for the Arab character.

"The Coke commercial for the Super Ball is racist, portraying Arabs as backward and foolish Camel Jockeys, and they have no chance to win in the world," Imam Ali Siddiqui, president of the Muslim Institute for Interfaith Studies, said in an email.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: arab; camel; coke; racist
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Arabs in the Arabian Peninsula are actually very proud of their Camel Culture. They go on desert camping excursions, hold camel races, etc.

It's the etc. part of the arab "camel culture" that I suspect would be more insulting but would no doubt be banned from showing on commercial TV ... or so I've heard ...

21 posted on 01/31/2013 6:59:01 AM PST by glennaro
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To: glennaro

Yes, it’s true. And many an Arab would “walk a mile for a Camel”.


22 posted on 01/31/2013 7:02:04 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: windsorknot
Yes, it’s true. And many an Arab would “walk a mile for a Camel”.

Or a goat.

23 posted on 01/31/2013 7:04:59 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Bathhouse Barry wants YOU to bend over for another four years)
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To: windsorknot

Richard Prior quote as reported by Eddie Murphy.


24 posted on 01/31/2013 7:07:10 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: mykroar

The neologism “racism” is problematic enough. But the idea that racial stereotypes, even making fun of certain people through these stereotypes—though it’s unclear to me whether that’s happened—are inherently racist is silly. I suppose they prefer a world where commercials are peopled by amorphous blobs with no discernable characteristics.


25 posted on 01/31/2013 7:12:04 AM PST by Tublecane
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To: mykroar

Now having watched the commercial how do they know the guy is even an Arab? Looks Mexican to me. A Mexican who found a camel while crossing the border and ran into some cowboys and Vegas show girls.


26 posted on 01/31/2013 7:22:04 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Bathhouse Barry wants YOU to bend over for another four years)
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To: mykroar

Arab Diversity

27 posted on 01/31/2013 7:22:08 AM PST by onedoug
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten

Super Balls were fun! Hurt like heck when you got hit with one. Yep, right up there with lawn darts, slip ‘n slides, bb guns and clackers but we didn’t have mass shootings by.


28 posted on 01/31/2013 7:30:58 AM PST by bgill (We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
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To: mykroar
Let me tell you 'bout Ahab The Arab,
The Sheik of the burning sand.
He had emeralds and rubies just a-dripping off of him
And a ring on every finger of his hands.
He wore a big ol' turban wrapped around his head
And a scimitar by his side.
And every evenin' about midnight,
He'd jump on his camel named Clyde..
29 posted on 01/31/2013 7:31:36 AM PST by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: mykroar

oil-rich sheiks, terrorists, or belly dancers?”

They left out sexual deviants who engage in sex with little boys for fun.

But so far the shoe fits.....


30 posted on 01/31/2013 7:32:37 AM PST by rfreedom4u (I have a copy of the Constitution! And I'm not afraid to use it!)
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To: mykroar

Me?? I am just tired of Arab-Americans, African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, When they come here they should be Americans, or go the Fudge back to wherever they came from.


31 posted on 01/31/2013 7:35:21 AM PST by Venturer
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To: bgill

32 posted on 01/31/2013 7:42:40 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: mykroar
"Why is it that Arabs are always shown as either oil-rich sheiks, terrorists, or belly dancers?"

Yeah; the rest of them are running 7-11's, or Convienience Stores.......

33 posted on 01/31/2013 7:44:55 AM PST by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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To: mykroar
For many years the only cola brand available in the Arab countries was Pepsi (pronounced "beepsee" in Arabic). Coke had a bottling plant in Israel, hence the long boycott. And one might suppose certain elements in those populations saw Coke's global popularity as a sign of one more Zionist plot.

The official Arab League boycott of Coke was lifted around 1991 (might have had something to do with a half million US troops on the ground saving the Saudi's - ahem! - bacon) and Atlanta's own is now available in those countries (pronounced "koo-ka-koolah"). But maybe excluding the Dromedary Driver in the commercial from having any chance to win the contest is just a little bit of payback.

34 posted on 01/31/2013 7:54:01 AM PST by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: All

In the interest of political correctness and being non-offensive to ANY person, place, thing, or animal be it mammal, reptilian, inssect, or amoeba...

All commercials from here on should be white screen with name of product in 200 languages printed in black on the screen in alphabetical order. This screen shot should stay on the screen with absolutely nothing else for a full 60 seconds before regular programs continue.


35 posted on 01/31/2013 8:01:00 AM PST by Boonie
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
Not to be confused with the "Happy Fun Ball". Remember, do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
36 posted on 01/31/2013 8:12:13 AM PST by reegs
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To: mykroar

“The Coke commercial for the Super Ball is racist, portraying Arabs as backward and foolish Camel Jockeys, and they have no chance to win in the world,”

No shiite Sherlock. Name the advances that have come from the Muslim world over the last 1,000 years. Waiting.........


37 posted on 01/31/2013 8:20:52 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: VeniVidiVici

They have wild camels in America. Some dummy released some a years ago and they did not die. He thought they would not be able to survive here but they did.

Jackwagons think camels are only an Arabic thing. They have camels in Africa too. They don’t ride them, they are used to carry stuff. Americans have pickups, they have camels.


38 posted on 01/31/2013 11:42:37 AM PST by USAF80
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To: mykroar

I believe it has everything to do with the Vegas showgirls. That guy that was on O’Reillys show last night would not come out and say it but knowing a thing or two about islam, I bet that is the problem. Could be wrong of course!


39 posted on 02/01/2013 4:40:58 AM PST by bergmeid (I told you so - now pass the ammo.)
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