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Billboard Brouhaha (Billy Dee Williams "racist and perverse" malt liquor ads)
wilx ^ | July 8, 2009 | AP

Posted on 07/08/2009 8:47:44 PM PDT by tlb

ETROIT (AP) -- Some members of the Detroit City Council say they're unhappy with billboards throughout the city that boast Colt 45 malt liquor "works every time."

The council spent part of Tuesday looking at ways to regulate such advertising after residents complained they were offended by the billboards featuring a cartoon representation of actor Billy Dee Williams.

Councilwoman JoAnn Watson says, "This is killing our community." Watson says she's worried the billboards are targeted specifically at Detroiters, calling it "an issue of racism and perversity."


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: billboards; billydee; censorship; detroit; maltliquor; michigan
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Lando Calrissian was always a shady dude.

Council President Kenneth Cockrel Jr. said he too had problems with the billboards but tempered his criticism by suggesting that the ads wouldn't go up if people didn't buy the products.

1 posted on 07/08/2009 8:47:44 PM PDT by tlb
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My only beef with Billy Dee Williams is that he betrayed Han Solo.


2 posted on 07/08/2009 8:53:41 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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I think Lando Calrissian is the least of Detroit’s problems.


3 posted on 07/08/2009 8:53:50 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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Councilwoman JoAnn Watson says, "This is killing our community."

What's killing your community is moronic gov't officials who think billboard advertisements are responsible for killing your community.

4 posted on 07/08/2009 8:56:57 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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Perhaps Obama might lend his noble visage to the next round of Colt 45 ads?


5 posted on 07/08/2009 8:57:30 PM PDT by Loyalist (Tagline redacted at the command of Mrs. Loyalist.)
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6 posted on 07/08/2009 8:59:06 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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Billy Dee Williams

Old school negro, not a whiner...real man and not a thug.. jar jar likey

7 posted on 07/08/2009 8:59:33 PM PDT by wardaddy (Proudly Anti-Abortion, not and will never be Pro-Life...........Sarah Palin, there is no substitute)
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To: LukeL

He sure didn’t do Han any favors.


8 posted on 07/08/2009 9:00:00 PM PDT by PoliticalDookie
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“This is killing our community.”

No dumbazz...how about your own brothers killing each other for crack and weed. How about they go get real jobs and do it the right way.


9 posted on 07/08/2009 9:00:12 PM PDT by oust the louse (This Country now has a smelly BO problem.....)
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I remember watching those Billy Dee Williams Colt 45 ads late at night back in the late 80's or early 90's. Either Channel 20 or Channel 50. I always laughed at those ads. They are cartoonish. Like the old Red Dog ads aimed at us white folk.

Somebody's drinking it, although actually I usually see only white college students drink malt liquor (cheap).

The only drink I've only seen blacks drink is Hennessy cognac. Back when I was at college, one guy on our dorm floor had us all try it. Us white guys didn't acquire the taste. That's alright, nobody wanted to try my whiskey. :)

10 posted on 07/08/2009 9:03:39 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (We do what we have to do.)
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Councilwoman JoAnn Watson says, "This is killing our community."

That's rich. Some billboards are killing Detroit?

What about all the thugs killing one another in Detroit? Oh no - can't be them. It must be the billboards. LOL

Detroit's already dead anyway.

11 posted on 07/08/2009 9:03:47 PM PDT by ladyjane
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“This is killing our community.”

I use it on weeds.

12 posted on 07/08/2009 9:05:51 PM PDT by Vidocq
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"works every time."

The sad truth is that it is true, I have had a lot of experience with both Colt 45 and Schlitz malt liquors and I know that malt liquor has so distorted my judgement at times that I have let women do things with me that I can't even describe here.

13 posted on 07/08/2009 9:10:17 PM PDT by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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"This is killing our community."

Once the malt liquor billboards are down, unemployment will drop to 5%, the abandoned buildings will be renovated, grocery stores will open in the city, and people will stop killing each other. So let's get those billboards down.

One thing I'm unsure about though is if the removal of the billboards will allow the Lions to win.

14 posted on 07/08/2009 9:14:07 PM PDT by Koblenz (The Dem Platform, condensed: 1. Tax and Spend. 2. Cut and Run. 3. Man on Man)
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Billy Dee’s all right. If the Detroit city council wants to know what’s ruining their city they ought to purchase a mirror.


15 posted on 07/08/2009 9:14:13 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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The only drink I've only seen blacks drink is Hennessy cognac.

I love Hennessy VSOP and I bought a friend a bottle of XO for his wedding gift.

16 posted on 07/08/2009 9:14:16 PM PDT by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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Never to late to incorporate a little bit of political correctness with your nanny state-ism.


17 posted on 07/08/2009 9:15:21 PM PDT by dr_who
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...somehow though I think the city council can’t see the forest for the trees.


18 posted on 07/08/2009 9:16:15 PM PDT by dr_who
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"I use it on weeds."

Before or after it'd pass through your bladder ?

19 posted on 07/08/2009 9:32:21 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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Am I the only one who wants to know who put them up? I doubt it was the Colt45 folks.


20 posted on 07/08/2009 9:40:08 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (ABC-AP-MSNBC-All Obama, All the time.)
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