GOP airs race baiting ad

iron81 · #1 10-25-2006, 06:47 PM

The commercial AP article

Cliffs notes: The RNC aired an advertisement that includes a ditzy blond asking Black US Senate candidate Harold Ford to "Call Me". The NAACP and others complained that this ad plays to racial prejudices regarding interracial dating.

Analysis: They've gone too far this time. Those [censored] latch onto the "Southern Strategy" and now that the Senate hangs in the balance (Tennessese is a key state) they are going back to their old playbook. They are playing to deep seated racial prejudices to put a dead wood senator back in office. This is on top of the retardness of the ad: "Canada can take care of North Korea, they're not busy". Republicans everywhere should be ashamed of themselves.

BCPVP · #2 10-25-2006, 06:55 PM

How is this race baiting?

4 High · #3 10-25-2006, 06:56 PM

Its meant to make white males angry at black males for dating "their women"

BCPVP · #4 10-25-2006, 06:59 PM

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Its meant to make white males angry at black males for dating "their women"

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Hmm, I'm a white male and I didn't get that at all.

4 High · #5 10-25-2006, 07:00 PM

Do you live in the deep south?

Broken Glass Can · #6 10-25-2006, 07:01 PM

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Do you live in the deep south?

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Tennessee is not the deep south.

iron81 · #7 10-25-2006, 07:01 PM

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Hmm, I'm a white male and I didn't get that at all.

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That's because you're not a bigot. If you don't care who white women date, you won't get angry. If you think that the [censored] should keep their hand to themselves and off your women, you're going to have a problem.

Edit for CC: I linked the ad in my OP.

Case Closed · #8 10-25-2006, 07:03 PM

Where can I actually see the ad?

Brainwalter · #9 10-25-2006, 07:03 PM

IMO This is about as bad as andyfox's "stereotypical Jew with a hooked nose" ad - which is supposedly offensive because the accurate picture of what he really looks like, has a hooked nose. If they were really playing the angle you describe, the message they would want to send is "you don't want your daughter dating a black guy do you?" But the woman in the ad ("I met Harold at a Playboy party!") is a Playmate type, not a "daughter" type. The point is that he goes to Playboy parties and is running in Tenn, not that he (likes white girls? what). They also don't show a picture of Ford. If I didn't know he was black and I saw that commercial I wouldn't think there was anything racial about it. I think the NAACP is ascribing motives that don't exist (there's a first time for everything). Maybe I'm just naive.

TomCollins · #10 10-25-2006, 07:09 PM

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How is this race baiting?

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