Max Eternity - This past August I submitted a post about anti-Black practices in corporate America entltled "Erase the Black Face: Microsoft 'Sanitizes' its Euro Ad [1]." The post immeadiately found itself at the center of a firestorm discussion @ RealNeo, with many attempting to whitewash the very obvious racist slant of the edited Microsoft ad. It was a marketing ploy which had the same ad "edited' for Europe--deleting the Black person, versus the original ad, for the US, which had a Black person and other ethnic groups well represented. Yet with this latest Erase the Black Face scenario coming out of Hollywood, how can there be any doubts left in anyone's mind--even the hardened FOX News enthusiasts--that racism is alive and well in Corporate USA--all the world.
It's nothing more than electro-digital, high-tech Jim Crow [2]...aka bigotry--racism.
From the UK's Mail Online:
The makers of a hit Hollywood film are at the centre of a race controversy after removing two black actors from a poster being used to promote it in Britain.
The American advert for Couples Retreat, a comedy starring Vince Vaughn and Kristin Davis, show all eight principal actors – six of whom are white and two black.
But the poster in Britain, where the film is on general release, omits actors Faizon Love and Kali Hawk. Read more [3].