KFC's new "finger lickin' good" campaign is slammed for being racially insensitive

Revolt via Yahoo ^ | August 27, 2023 | Angelina Velasquez

[grundle]

The video in the article doesn't work.

[grundle]

Here's the same video. This one works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3TXHRpRkxc

[pepsionice]

I think the only path ahead...for future commercials, is to have only robots do the ‘finger-licking-good’ routine.

[Gaffer]

I don’t see anything wrong with it. They’ve been using that line seems like forever. The ‘mix’ of races in the commercials was an attempt to placate racial complainers but with them, there’s no satisfying them. They just want everything to be about race, race, race.

[Larry Lucido]

They might want to hold off on the new watermelon fries.

[popdonnelly]

My biggest concern right now is whether the KFC ad is racially insensitive.

[N. Theknow]

Two Black men and a woman of color? SMDH

[Abbeville Conservative]

Give me a break. Blacks and other minorities are all we see in ads today. It’s if white people no longer exist. Of course those in the media, politics and advertising wish that were true.

[RoosterRedux]

Haha. The Left demands that all commercials use only black actors then screams "racism" when a KFC commercial shows a black person licking his fingers.

[chuckee]

“I think the only path ahead...for future commercials, is to have only robots do the ‘finger-licking-good’ routine.”

Great idea. Replace black folk who now proliferate in commercials with robots and take the “racially insensitive” narrative constructs away from the race hustlers with an agenda.

[Apparatchik]

Gee, you’d think the lesbian community would be most upset. 🤷

[N. Theknow]

Blacks upset by a commercial of Blacks eating fried chicken.
But no outrage at commercials featuring Blacks in HIV medication ads.

[cockroach_magoo]

Perhaps all parties would be appeased with a redo of the ad campaign featuring Justin Trudeau in Blackface, licking his fingers?

[Sirius Lee]

One solution to prevent something like this from every happening again would be to not use black actors in advertisements of any sort, ever.

[knarf]

Here's the thing . . . Many, many, TOO many "institutions" and agencies are populated by brain washed public school graduates with a degree in inane stupidity, and at any time they can be called upon to make a stupid statement and the same indoctrinated sick-o-phants in the "news" media picks it up and blasts the public with these inane and stupid words, ALL of which is made to sound like the 150 professionals that swore . . . .

I'm disgusted with myself for wasting MY brain cells and time even commenting.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Bingo.

[Russ]

Only a racist would think that ad is racist.

[Sacajaweau]

I don’t see anything wrong with it either. What IS wrong is 90% of commercials are black.

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[9YearLurker]

It’s not just that. A greater share of Asian, Hispanic and black ethnic groups frequent KFC than do whites.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/670821/visitors-to-kfc-in-the-last-six-months-us-by-ethnicity/

[Colorado Doug]

T
hey would have to be black robots because only blacks are allowed to do commercials.