Car commercial controversy

Dubguy

Car commercial controversy
January 30, 2013 07:26AM

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Volkswagen Super Bowl Ad

I find it humorous that this is offensive to some. How exactly is this racist? I think it's just plain funny

and the video itself:

"It is noh mistri, wi mekkin histri" - LKJ

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Zana

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January 30, 2013 07:53AM

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I think its funny. Especially because of the reggae artists coming outa Germany with heavy patois accents (Gentleman, Cornadoor...).

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east bay herbalist

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January 30, 2013 07:57AM

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Some people have nothing better to do than find something to bitch about....Although im a little upset about the inacurracies in the speach patten. Proper patois would be " no worries mi bredda sticky bun soon come" not " come soon". Jeeez.

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mghifi

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January 30, 2013 10:05AM

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Imagine if the guy in the commercial was doing a Charlie Chan impression. That would be looked at as pretty racist huh? Same thing here. Not surprisingly, a lot of black people have found this commercial offensive. Just like they do in real life, when white clowns run around doing their auditory minstrel show.

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Walter

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January 30, 2013 10:29AM

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I don't think its racist, in that there are plenty of white people in JA that have the Carribbean accent and uses patios. The most racist thing that I see in all of this is the outrage apparently generated by the assumption that the only people in JA that uses accented JA patios are black.

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wellcharge

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January 30, 2013 10:40AM

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i agree with walter

so who is saying that it is racist ? is it Black Jamaicans, Chinese Jamaicans, Indian Jamaicans ?

i don't recall anyone complaining about the " Jamaicans skit" that they used to do on the tv show "In Living Color"

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Ras James

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January 30, 2013 10:52AM

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Quote
Walter
I don't think its racist, in that there are plenty of white people in JA that have the Carribbean accent and uses patios. The most racist thing that I see in all of this is the outrage apparently generated by the assumption that the only people in JA that uses accented JA patios are black.

Well put. All the offense I've seen about these adds seems to be from people in the states. Jamaican is a nationality, not a race. The reaction to these adds in Jamaica has been pretty good actually.

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mulligan

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January 30, 2013 04:06PM

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so who is saying that it is racist ? "

mghifi

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bun n cheese

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January 30, 2013 10:24PM

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Ras James

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January 31, 2013 05:06AM

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[jamaicaglasshouse.wordpress.com]

A perspective on the non-matter from a Jamaican blogger

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Stamina!

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January 31, 2013 08:58AM

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The comments from Jamaicans on youtube and Huffpost about this commercial seem to be overwhelmingly positive, although an awful lot of them are scratching their heads about why this would be considered racist.

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Stamina!

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January 31, 2013 05:28PM

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bun n cheese

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January 31, 2013 05:49PM

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Hmmm, seems to me like it wasn't the Volkswagon that make the drive so Irie... unless Volkswagon is a German engineered strain I have never heard of before.

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DJ BIG JIM

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January 31, 2013 07:35PM

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I think people from all over the world use Patios and relax on them, regardless of nationality and beliefs.

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DJ BIG JIM

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January 31, 2013 07:41PM

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I saw one of these commercials from VW last night during American Idol featuring someone who really made my SNWMF experience last year, Jimmy Cliff and I found nothing offensive in it.

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strikkly

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February 01, 2013 07:05AM

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great skit......Germans are certainly different from Americans........they were clowning obviously....
but I do believe that Europeans have used patois in their music in a more natural and believable way than some of us Americans (the worst being the fake patois sound systems)

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Ras James

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February 04, 2013 12:23PM

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Stamina!

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February 04, 2013 12:52PM

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February 04, 2013 01:14PM

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