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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You are correct! Only the Indian caused eyes to occasionally wet, though.
Now that’s just funny right there!
Or “That’s nacho cheese!”
lol — good one
It was a very effective ad. Should still be used judiciously today.
Exactly, thought it was a PSA ?
Agreed.
I worked for an engineering company
tasked with upgrading reservations’
heating, water, and infrastructure.
Their past ways are highly ingrained.
They would chop holes in the roofs of
newly built housing to let the smoke
escape from a fire pit built in their
living rooms.
Alcohol is their biggest nemesis.
New vehicle dealers are hesitant selling
vehicles (especially pickups) to any
Indian, as they being a sovergn nation,
can take that truck to the reservation
and can halt any chance of repossession
for non payment.
Their children (in some cases) are attending
schools built from mud and sticks in
typical hogan style.
Since they have lost all pride, trash
piles up, and their neighborhoods soon
morph into something that looks ghetto.
The Italian guy?? These people are truly retarded.
HAHAHA. I f I were king I would have given it to the Knights of Columbus...
I agree. In every reservation area that we’ve been in or near was trash everywhere. Maybe the Native Americans need to clean up their own back yards before they lecture the rest of us. We were stunned the first time we traveled up to Glacier National Park. On the east side of the park in the “reservation” area, it was so heavy with trash (mostly empty beer containers) that when I asked a park ranger about it he said it was Indian land and they didn’t want US government “taking care” of their land. Don’t know if that was the whole story but the evidence was overwhelming. And that wasn’t the only reservation we saw this way. So very sad.
Wasn’t the Chief supposed to be ‘Iron Eyes Cody’?
I’m having spaghetti tonight ... but I call it maize!
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