Is Angela Rye reaching with this one

[skokiaan]

I like these threads when americans try to talk about real football




9/10ths of the world watches real football and understand the message in that ad.

Wasnt brazillian kaka doing this ad jus last year or shud i say a few weeks ago

 

[Black Magisterialness]

I agree they been calling black players beasts, brutal etc. I been noticed that for quite some time now. But white players are elegant, poise, artistic etc. They not even hiding it anymore.

Its always been like that. Emphasis on athleticism. Even though players like Iwobi, Raheem Sterling, Sane, Pogba, Dembele, etc are GIFTED in the technical aspects of the game. You only hear about the "STRENGTH" of Lukaku and shyt like that.

I don't think Pogba's dominance is represented well on TV anyway. I got to see him live when Man U played Barca in DC last summer...there were extended moments where it felt like he was the only man in the center of the park...the ball just STUCK to him and he could do whatever the hell he wanted with it.

Exactly, good analogy.

If you have a problem with this you should have a problem with both. Which is fine as long as people are consistent

Or when nikkas call themselves "goons" or "gorilla" or whatever.

 

[thatrapsfan]

Didnt read this thread, but I hope someone mentioned that the Predator's have been around forever and have been promoted by everyone from a white Brit (Beckham) to an Algerian Frenchman (Zidane) to Pogba.

Chalk this up to ignorance and lets move on.

 

[Standing on business]

I wonder if anyone will try and spin this

 

[thatrapsfan]

I wonder if anyone will try and spin this

Spin what I know you're trolling, but it will take you three seconds to find ads with non black players portrayed as Predators for these cleats.

 

[Standing on business]

Spin what I know you're trolling, but it will take you three seconds to find ads with non black players portrayed as Predators for these cleats.

I know I've posted a few in this thread. I want to see someone spin this picture into being racist and a bad representation of black people.

Edit- I see you didn read the thread, you should read and see all the comments

 

[SmarkMero]

@Beyoncé knowles-Carter Angela definitely didn't see this.

 

[thatrapsfan]

I know I've posted a few in this thread. I want to see someone spin this picture into being racist and a bad representation of black people.

Edit- I see you didn read the thread, you should read and see all the comments

My bad, I get you.

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

I know I've posted a few in this thread. I want to see someone spin this picture into being racist and a bad representation of black people.

So you rather put the earnest on the potential consumer to figure out a company's intentions versus the people who came up with the marketing plan? It's not the consumers fault people who are paid to be smart went about their jobs like idiots. I wonder if a company that sells oven cleaner would have as much leeway if they featured a Jew cleaning an oven when they said "we have the same ad featuring other groups of people too!"

 

[Tribal Outkast]

I would probably be on her side if it wasn't for that big ass Adidas logo up there. We pay hundreds of dollars for these little computers in our pockets... why not just google this shyt and research what it is before just straight going off on it?

 

[Black Bolt]

Super reach, Pred's are the GOAT football boots, David Beckham was its figurehead all through the 90s and noughties and they are by far Adidas' most successful boots. That they've given Pogba the mantle is to his credit. This isn't a H&M situation.

 

[BigL187]

reaching how
we live in a global system of white supremacy everthing you see will be insulting so expect to be insulted

 

[DPresidential]

reaching how
we live in a global system of white supremacy everthing you see will be insulting so expect to be insulted

Reaching how?

Just look at the post right above you.

Super reach, Pred's are the GOAT football boots, David Beckham was its figurehead all through the 90s and noughties and they are by far Adidas' most successful boots. That they've given Pogba the mantle is to his credit. This isn't a H&M situation.

Cosign.

Although an institutionally racist system is an absolute cancer in our current society - it's strategic and, simply, the intelligent thing to do to not waste ammunition on firing at shadows.

fukk trying to gain respect or trying to prove anything to "white people", the goal of her post is clearly part of her very respectable efforts to bring the attention of fellow black people towards very real threats to our future in society.

Angela Rye's reach here trivializes her credibility.

That being said, we all misstep and get emotional so I'm not demonizing her.

 

[DPresidential]

Nobody is calling for protests or boycotting Addidas. nikkas is just saying the ad was on some racist shyt even within the context nikkas is writing essays for. If cats disagree, then its whatever.

I apologize if I offended you or anybody that shares your stance, but I won't apologize to anybody that is cool with that fukked up ad. They just gon have to eat that.

I'm not even upset at the soccer player in the ad. He another black person getting money. I'm happy for that. It's just that he has to be portrayed in such a negative way compared to white dudes advertising the same shyt.

That's really all I have left to say on this.

I respect your comments and although this thread kind of went the usual "off the rails of commenting" as any comment section on the internet, I appreciate this post.

But I highlighted the above sections of your post because I had some issue with what you were saying.

Aren't we all of the understanding that this thread is mainly about whether Angela Rye was reaching w/ her entire statement?

She indicated that the ad was devastating. She gave her reasons. Brehs aren't defending a racist ad; brehs are giving their opinion on whether the ad was even racist at all.

Secondly, when I saw the young black man's face on that ad, I saw the face of an athlete being "locked in" on some competitive sports killer instinct shyt. I think we have opened up another interesting discussion since you seem to believe his serious face and the predator name of the sports product paints him "in such a negative way."

I'm not coming at you but we should ask questions on what does it mean that well meaning brehs who care about their people can still exhibit bias towards a fellow black man who has his face in virtually the same manner as a non black athlete in other ads.

There is nothing "scary" about that ad unless you feel a negative vibe coming from him.

We shouldn't be feeling a negative vibe from him.

Sorry for the essay.

 

[RTF]

It's a reach.

To be fair - I can't find any other ads of Predators where it is written without the boot being shown somehow.

BUT the post above shows how it is part of a series. And your boy Pogba rocks predators. The other players rock the other kicks.

Definite reach.

And I hate this outrage culture. Real shyt happens everyday in silence but we want to complain about silly ads.

I need to see that H&M market share drop. I need to a fall in revenue for H&M.

We got no code. If something messes with us, we run to social media. Will we hit them in the pocket?

MLK ran succesful boycotts. Economically crippled the bus companies. Be about it and shut up.