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All-White Gold Star Chili Commercial


I can't find a link to post the new Gold Star Chili commercial that lovingly adorns our Fox Sports Ohio commercial breaks. I'd love to post it here, as the spot completely astonished me. The tag line is "This is Cincinnati Flavor." This might be true - assuming that minorities don't count in Cincinnati. You see, I counted 23 people (including parts of people like hands, and people in the background) in the commercial.

And none of them were black. Not a one.

In fact, there are no minorities to be found...perhaps the one's guy's arm is Asian, and the mustache guy might be Latino rather than Italian, but that's as close as anyone comes to being anything other than white (and pasty)

So next time you see this spot, feel free to go minority-hunting. Let use know what you think.

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What do you think of the Gold Star spot?
It was a harmless mistake - even though it was seen and approved by pro marketers and countless Gold Star executives
10 votes
Of course the ad is racist - Cincinnati is still a pretty bigotted, segregated place.
14 votes
That one guy's arm was definitely Asian.
7 votes
boobs
30 votes

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I'm assuming you don't mean this one?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyDHaNbNjaw

Because, while I don’t see race, I think I see a black man and his kid at the end.

"It seems like we're not hitting because we're not getting hits." - Dusty being Dusty

by Slyde on Jun 30, 2009 4:57 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I see them, too.

But I didn’t see them when I went through the spot, so perhaps this is a different version, or perhaps I was drunk when I was watching. Probably the latter.

I can see you're not going to agree with me, so let's move on. - Bill Maher

by PeteyHendrix on Jun 30, 2009 5:05 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

It turns out that Slyde's link IS NOT the ad I saw.

The spot I saw was a recut of Slyde’s link, and it ran again last night in the commercial break leading into the top of the eighth inning. This spot features “$5 Footlongs,” and contains NO minorities.

The spot Slyde links to has 51 discernible persons, and 2 of them are black (and only pictured together, as there is no race-mixing over the fine linoleum of a Gold Star franchise.

So out of the Greater (Graeter?) Cincinnati population of 331,285 (2000 census) , 142,176 are black. That’s 42.9 % of the population, not 0.0% nor 3.9% as these commercials might demonstrate.

That’s racist!

I can see you're not going to agree with me, so let's move on. - Bill Maher

by PeteyHendrix on Jul 1, 2009 6:20 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

yup

There was some discussion in the game thread. You were right.

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by BubbaFan on Jul 1, 2009 6:23 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Petey works for Skyline. :)

Eighty-five percent of the f*ckin' world is working. The other fifteen percent come out here. A f*ckin' playground for the cocks*ckers.
-Lee Elia on Cubs fans

by Farneyismycopilot on Jul 1, 2009 8:09 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Here, here on the titties.

Eighty-five percent of the f*ckin' world is working. The other fifteen percent come out here. A f*ckin' playground for the cocks*ckers.
-Lee Elia on Cubs fans

by Farneyismycopilot on Jun 30, 2009 5:35 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

It is hard for Cincinnati based companies to find Negores for commercials who aren't uppity.

Why do I live in this city which is a haven of moronic neo-cons, bleeding heart faux liberals, anti-semetics (Jews and Muslims alike), homophobes and racists….?

I blame my city choice on Bob Howsam and the BRM

One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
George Carlin

by Madville on Jun 30, 2009 5:34 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Um...

Colored folk don’t eat chili?

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by BubbaFan on Jun 30, 2009 5:57 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I do enjoy

how KFC goes out of its way to include white people in its ads.

Wear something sexy to my funeral.

by Pops Daniels on Jul 1, 2009 4:57 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

What about the Asian dudes in karate outfits and the one that yells, in accented English: CHICKEN!!

Eighty-five percent of the f*ckin' world is working. The other fifteen percent come out here. A f*ckin' playground for the cocks*ckers.
-Lee Elia on Cubs fans

by Farneyismycopilot on Jul 1, 2009 5:00 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

In all fairness

Asians love them some KFC.

"I lay my head on the railroad tracks, and wait for the double E"- Warren Zevon

by Colin Auscapee on Jul 1, 2009 5:23 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

that's racist!

When I went to China, there was a KFC in Beihai Park (which some think is the most beautiful place on earth). Sacrilege. Apparently I wasn’t the only one who thought so, because the government eventually ordered the KFC removed.

All Things Bubba: Because how can you not love a baseball player named Bubba?

by BubbaFan on Jul 1, 2009 5:36 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I'm a bit pissed

that there aren’t more two-dimensional, oppressive white people depicted in ads for Depends undergarments.

Wear something sexy to my funeral.

by Pops Daniels on Jul 1, 2009 6:17 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Oh, the two-dimensional people are there

They’re just standing perpendicular to you.

by Brendanukkah on Jul 1, 2009 7:12 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I see

A right angle of anglo then?

Wear something sexy to my funeral.

by Pops Daniels on Jul 1, 2009 8:00 PM EDT up reply actions   1 recs

(failed attempt at stupid joke)

Wear something sexy to my funeral.

by Pops Daniels on Jul 1, 2009 8:50 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I liked it

"Don't let the brain interfere with the heart" -- Albert Einstein

by jch24 on Jul 1, 2009 9:06 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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