"Filling the gap left by the Arsenio 'Whoop,'" said Savan, "'Whasssuup' refreshes a viewer's sense of irony and multicultural savvy." Savan said the ads suggest that Bud "can make cool black men out of repressed white males." Bud's appropriation of this slang term "flatters white people that they can get in touch with their inner black men -- but not their outer, because it stands in for knowing any real black people." Savan revealed these amusing ads to be loaded with ideological (read: racist) freight.
YES! THANK YOU! I have disliked these ads from the beginning!
And since when was being a black man all that cool, anyway? I mean, if it was all that cool, then, wouldn't things be rather different around here?
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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