Maybe give it to these guys. It would only be fair.
Posted on 02/28/2023 9:26:47 PM PST by Olog-hai
Since its debut in 1971, an anti-pollution ad showing a man in Native American attire shed a single tear at the sight of smokestacks and litter taking over a once unblemished landscape has become an indelible piece of TV pop culture.
It’s been referenced over the decades since on shows like “The Simpsons” and “South Park” and in internet memes. But now a Native American advocacy group that was given the rights to the long-parodied public service announcement is retiring it, saying it has always been inappropriate. […]
The nonprofit that originally commissioned the advertisement, Keep America Beautiful, had long been considering how to retire the ad and announced this week that it’s doing so by transferring ownership of the rights to the National Congress of American Indians.
“Keep America Beautiful wanted to be careful and deliberate about how we transitioned this iconic advertisement/public service announcement to appropriate owners,” Noah Ullman, a spokesperson for the nonprofit, said via e-mail. “We spoke to several Indigenous peoples’ organizations and were pleased to identify the National Congress of American Indians as a potential caretaker.” …
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Not the Order Sons and Daughters of Italy in America? Well, that’s just wrong!
The “Indian” in the ad was actually a Sicilian from Louisiana. Not a drop of Indian blood.
And they feel very self-satisfied with this pointless gesture
So they have the rights to an Italian-American crying.
Maybe give it to these guys. It would only be fair.
Will the “Native Americans” claim the rights to Lasagna too?
After all, you can’t make Lasagna without tomatoes and tomatoes came from the New World.
I met him at a Rose Parade participants party in like 85 or so... I was like 11. He was the only Celeberity I knew. hahah.... He was all dressed up... he stayed in character... didnt say much. I didnt see any tears though.
Too late. That ad is ancient TV history. It rarely gets referred to anymore. Will these same Indians sue for misappropriation when they find out that actor was Jewish? Find some other way to chase a dollar!
They got their name from when two Pilgrim kids were out playing in the woods. Little Tom and Mary. Everyone thought the red fruits were poisonous. But Tom ate one. Mary ran back to town screaming “Tom Ate Those!”, “Tom Ate Those!”, “TomAteThose!”
So yesterday. Now they need a fake Indian transgender to cry about climate change.
I don’t know if you are joking or serious. Good story either way. :)
They’re remaking the commercial with Pocahontas.
Tigers, Lions and Elephants and all sorts of wacky creatures used to run around America. The America Europeans found was hardly an untouched wilderness when the Europeans found it. Indians weren’t exactly Captain Planet in their day. Ironically if it WAS an untouched wilderness this weakens the idea that Europeans stole America since that would mean the indians only inhabited a very small portion.
What is the point of this?
It should be released to the public domain if anything.
That sounds an awful lot like the guy chasing the rolling wheel of free government cheese he dropped, screaming a warning to everyone,
“That’s not your cheese, that’s not your cheese!”
Arguably the greatest public service commercial of all time.
Context?
What was missed is that outside every Indian reservation I’ve ever seen is a stream of trash, mostly empty alcohol containers. I’ve always figured a update of the ad showing the road at a reservation would be highly appropriate.
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