McDonalds somehow gets away with stereotyping us

[TheJet]

Man I remember even as a youngster feeling like it was something funny about those Kool-Aid commercials they used to play during Soul Train

 

[shopthatwrecks]

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[FINALE]

This dude got good writing, editing and camera quality with only 4k subs, YouTube Industry plants the new thing?

 

[Mike Nasty]

This also applies to every commercial on urban radio.

 

[Amo Husserl]

 

[kingdizzy01]

I feel like schools did something similar

i hate this fukking commercial

 

[Taco]

 

[Kenny West]

That was flames. GOAT shyt.

 

[Fukwatutalkinwatisaylaw]

Interesting. I'm not sure that I agree completely in regards to McDonald's but overall I get what he's saying.

So he uses this 1979 McDonald's commercial as one his examples. I'm not sure I have a problem with this commercial especially in 1979.
A Black churchgoing family. Father representation. Everyone seems happy. I even like the gospel inspired music. Am I bugging???

I rock wit this one..sound like the intro to that show Amen

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

The overwhelming majority of advertising is based on ignorant tropes.

Thats why you always see flamboyant Black men dancing in every ad, or fat Black women acting fierce then dancing in every add, or some other goofy trope.

 

[JoelB]

Thats a good video OP. I just subbed to his channel, surprised he doesnt have more views

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I thought this was a parody video Kerwin made, but nahhh thats McDonalds YouTube channel lol

 

[Bar Razor]

Not on topic but the dude in this video mannerism and persona reminds me of Marques Brownlee a bit.

Was thinking the same thing.

 

[UncleTomFord15]

Ciroc did the same thing kinda

 

[JustRegularBlack]

Interesting topic. With all this being said you gotta include more about, Tom Burrell, a trailblazer in getting ads targeted to black people.

He has a dope Planet Money episode.



Also more about him.

Tom Burrell, Ad Legend - Adpulp

Tom Burrell was born in 1939 and he grew up on Chicago’s South Side. When he entered the advertising agency business in 1961, he was the only black person in the entire city of Chicago working in the field. To say that Burrell is a maverick is too tame. He’s a trailblazer who climbed the […]

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Overall I think he was trying to do what he felt was right at the time but based on a few things he said on the Planet Money podcast, even he wonders if it was the right move in hindsight.

 

[Bumblebreh]

They did the breh dirty.