Dec 28 2009
Could This Be Any More Racist?
Wait a minute, is this a cruel joke or what? This ad for N.K. Fairbank Co. soaps portrays a white girl asking a black girl “Why doesn’t your mamma wash you with fairy soap?”
I mean I can’t believe something like this ever existed in this country.
Honestly that picture should be of a Jersey Shore person on the left and a normal person on the right. Then it might make more sense.
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more racist…
Believe it. Ads like this were as common as the Geico Gecko.
I don’t get it. The kid is just suggesting a better brand of soap.
Yea i mean leave it up to americans to point out everything thats racist even if its not…i mean really look how dirty the little black girl is it makes total sense to me
It’s racist because the lil’ girl herself isn’t dirty, her clothes are; and, this product is clearly body soap. The ad is insinuating what was perceived as common: black people are dirty second class citizens with no knowledge of etiquette.
And frankly any ad in America around this time with Negroes in it was derogatory, no matter what product. That is a fact.
So you’re saying black people can’t be dirty?
Black people can be dirty….BUT her clothes are dirty. You don’t wash clothes with bar soap. Te black child also isn’t wearing ANY shoes. Her clothes are torn and ragged. The white child’s hair is kept along with her clean clothes and pair of shoes. And given the time when this ad was made, African Americans’ presence in advertisements were highly stereotypical.
And technically you can’t even see the dirt on her black skin; which implies that she is what needs to be cleaned.
I guess. It just seems to take a lot of effort to pull racism out of some things. Kind of reminds me of that South Park episode where they wanted to change the town flag and the kids didn’t even realize the issue was about race…to the adults.
I prefer the childs state of mind.
Yeah, in a country full of snobby WASPS, yuppies, and overall suburbanite pussies who shit themselves when dealing with “ebrasive black people”, it is hard to imagine this country used to be so racially downtrodden.
Why even bother wearing shoes when you can’t even tie laces?
Lorin, you have more patience than I do…NumerDipshit has got to be kidding or clearly didn’t go to school passed the 3rd grade if she/he can’t realize the implied racism in here (all things – era, context, etc. – considered).
I wonder how morons like that can’t see what’s right in front of them, but can manage to navigate online.
I see the implied racism. I simply choose not to dig so hard to get to it. It’s just not worth the effort.
I mean sure, back then this was straight up racism. I just mean in todays world, people seem to be hunting for racism at every opportunity. It’s become sort of a witch hunt which just feeds into the whole polictically correct, bubble wrapped for your safety and sanitized for your protection world we live in today.
I’m sick of it, and I’m just not going to play any more.
Therefore I CHOOSE to see an innocent exchange between two children.
So in closing, “Lorin”; thank you for an intersting exchange of ideas.
“Yeah, right”; you can suck it.
No prob Numer6. healthy dialogue is always welcome. And I understand where your coming from…
Here’s a blatant ad from 2009. Whether intentional or not, someone clearly failed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQOqLT7BaC0&feature=player_embedded
@Numbers, I do agree that there is a hair-trigger when looking for racism nowadays. But the above ad was easily discernable as racist. Why not have 2 white kids, 1 clean and 1 dirty?
The fun part is where and when the racism card is played. A good pizza place I found once, in a predominately black neighborhood was named “Pizza and Fried Chicken.” When you walked in there was a fridge with watermelon prominently displayed. I could see a crapstorm happening if the owners were white. (For the record, they made a nice pizza and awesome wings at a great price.)
@Lorin- If I had seen that commercial without you pointing it out, I would just wonder why an Australian/British guy was at a congo party. Never would have thought of the fried chicken/black angle. We eat KFC about twice a month, so I don’t automatically equate fried chicken with black people.
@Bryan
I understand. We rarely eat KFC as well. But being African American, these instances, which seem normal to you, do hold a different weight for me.
I’m not saying I wake up with the intent to find fault with the world and this skin I’m in. If that were the case, I wouldn’t be in my final semester of college.