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- From: shrum@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Rick Shrum)
- Subject: Re: Racism and fried food (Was: Where is Lake Edna? (KFC))
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.182408.27311@eos.arc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: NASA Ames Res. Ctr, Calif.
- References: <1992Dec19.204337.4056@ll.mit.edu> <6795@npri6.npri.com> <1992Dec24.122851.2240@athena.mit.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 18:24:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.122851.2240@athena.mit.edu> crafts@athena.mit.edu (The Invisible Man) writes:
- >In article <6795@npri6.npri.com>, eric@npri6.npri.com (Eric Williams) writes:
- >|> In article <1992Dec19.204337.4056@ll.mit.edu>, mcbride@ll.mit.edu (Barbara McBride) writes:
- >
- >What bothers me though is the backlash against certain images in commercials.
- >Not TV shows but commercials. Anyone remember a Saturn commercial where
- >a white woman went to a Saturn dealership on her own and bought a car from
- >a black salesperson. You've probably never seen it because I've only seen it
- >one time. Now I wonder what image people had a problem with? Was it a woman
- >who could go and make such a major purchase without the help of a man? Was
- >it that people couldn't handle a black man and white woman interacting even
- >on a professional level. Saturn has that commercial with the daughter going
- >shopping for a car with her dad and eventually buying the car from a
- >Saturn salesperson who was black, but dad was standing bewteen them when
- >they shook on the deal, as if to protect his daughter.
- >
- >Now why couldn't mom take the daughter shopping for a new Saturn?
- >
- >Dan
- >crafts@athena.mit.edu
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- I think some people just *look* for something they
- imagine offends them.
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