Arab American groups call Coca Cola's Super Bowl ad 'racist'
I won't be staying up to watch the Super Bowl on Sunday night. With the 1:30 am start and 5:00 am finish, I am only willing to chance jet lag if my beloved Patriots are playing (which they are not this year).But the ads that will be shown during the game are already up on YouTube, and Arab American groups are furious over this one by Coca Cola.
Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: MFS - The Other News). More after the video.
“Why is it that Arabs are always shown as either oil-rich sheiks, terrorists, or belly dancers?” said Warren David, president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, or ADC.
Funny, there don't seem to be any Jews in that ad....
Coca-Cola released an online teaser of the commercial last week, showing the Arab walking through a desert. He soon sees cowboys, Las Vegas showgirls and a motley crew fashioned after the marauders of the apocalyptic “Mad Max” film race by him to reach a gigantic bottle of Coke.
In its ad, Coke asks viewers to vote online on which characters should win the race. The online site does not allow a vote for the Arab character.
“The Coke commercial for the Super Ball is racist, portraying Arabs as backward and foolish Camel Jockeys, and they have no chance to win in the world,” Imam Ali Siddiqui, president of the Muslim Institute for Interfaith Studies, said in an email.
“What message is Coke sending with this?” asked Abed Ayoub, ADC’s director of legal and policy affairs. “By not including the Arab in the race, it is clear that the Arab is held to a different standard when compared to the other characters in the commercial,” he said.
Labels: Arab Americans, Coca Cola, discrimination, humor, Super Bowl XLVII
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:55 PM
1 Comments:
“Why is it that Arabs are always shown as either oil-rich sheiks, terrorists, or belly dancers?” said Warren David, president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, or ADC."
Well, I don't know, Mr. David. Why don't we ever refer to any Arabs as Nobel Prize winners? Oh, that's right, there aren't any, not a one. Hundreds of millions of Arabs from Morocco to the Persian Gulf and never a single Nobel Prize winner. Whereas in the tiny Zionist Entity, with a mere 6 million Jews, there are a full dozen. Not just the BS Peace Prize either, but real Nobels in science, technology, medicine.
But, we digress.
However, since we are asking questions, why do Arab and non-Arab Islamists frequently refer to Jews as "sons of apes and pigs"? And why do Arab and non-Arab Islamists frequently refer to Christians as "those who incur the wrath of God"? It'd be a pleasant, even shocking change to hear some prominent Arab Imam publicly refer to Jews as "our Jewish brothers and sisters" and to Christians as "our Christian brothers and sisters".
Oh, and I for one find nothing wrong per se with oil-rich sheiks or with belly dancers, as long as they don't financially or otherwise support the third alleged stereotype, the Arab terrorist.
It is true that the vast majority of Arabs aren't terrorists but it is also true that the vast, overwhelming majority of the terrorists in the world are Arabs. Now, that indisputable fact ought to bother you a helluva more than any silly Coca-Cola commercial.
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