Saying something is racist is saying a lot, it's putting a lot of intent into the creators and participants of the commercial.
Watching the ad certainly does make me raise an eyebrow as it looks like what it is, a white man getting annoyed by celebrating black people and getting them to quiet down by serving them fried chicken. It's a stereotype that black people love fried chicken.
Now it seems that the commercial was another one in a series of commercials were a similar series of events occurs and that puts a slightly different spin on things, but then I ask this:
Does the white quy look into the camera and quip, "Too easy." or something like that at the end of those other commercials? Because that quip to me sort of seals the deal on the racist question in regards to the commercial.
Let us also not forget KFC is an American company, in TYT video the anchors say that KFC has said the commercial was not meant to be seen outside of Australia and they go on to wonder why they would say that if the makers/approvers of the commercial didn't know about the connotations of it.
(Also, KFC, seriously? What the fuck, man, have you met the 21st century?)
On a more broader note I think that that stereotype is something that should be more and more past us and mostly forgotten, it may have had a lot more weight in a different time and era but today it's like what someone above said, "doesn't everyone love fried chicken?"
Wouldn't it be more racist to not include black people in such commercials in an attempt to avoid offending people?
There's being PC and then there's being too PC. There may be lines we shouldn't cross that will always be there but I'd say that in the end a white man serving food to a group of people to get to calm down shouldn't be an issue, even if that group of people is black. (Adding in to the context of the other commercials.)
Watching the ad certainly does make me raise an eyebrow as it looks like what it is, a white man getting annoyed by celebrating black people and getting them to quiet down by serving them fried chicken. It's a stereotype that black people love fried chicken.
Now it seems that the commercial was another one in a series of commercials were a similar series of events occurs and that puts a slightly different spin on things, but then I ask this:
Does the white quy look into the camera and quip, "Too easy." or something like that at the end of those other commercials? Because that quip to me sort of seals the deal on the racist question in regards to the commercial.
Let us also not forget KFC is an American company, in TYT video the anchors say that KFC has said the commercial was not meant to be seen outside of Australia and they go on to wonder why they would say that if the makers/approvers of the commercial didn't know about the connotations of it.
(Also, KFC, seriously? What the fuck, man, have you met the 21st century?)
On a more broader note I think that that stereotype is something that should be more and more past us and mostly forgotten, it may have had a lot more weight in a different time and era but today it's like what someone above said, "doesn't everyone love fried chicken?"
Wouldn't it be more racist to not include black people in such commercials in an attempt to avoid offending people?
There's being PC and then there's being too PC. There may be lines we shouldn't cross that will always be there but I'd say that in the end a white man serving food to a group of people to get to calm down shouldn't be an issue, even if that group of people is black. (Adding in to the context of the other commercials.)
