I received this message yesterday:
Dear friends,
this is Germany???s first antiracist media-watchdog, called ???der braune mob???, looking for some developing aid for our society once again.
Similar to the German UNICEF campaign ???Schools for Africa??? in 2007, where white children were supposed to show solidarity to african children by sporting blackface, we have another recent case now which is taking German blackface advertising to a whole new level.
Check out this clip (click on ???TV-Spot???):
http://www.atu.de/pages/shop/home.html
The slogan goes ???damit Sie braungebrannt aus dem Urlaub kommen und nicht Schwarz vor ??rger???
(???so that you return from holidays with a tan and not black from anger???).
Note: ???black from anger??? ist a German saying that???s being used by (white) Germans to this day.
Please find out more about the campaign, the people responsible and how we could use your help and solidarity, here:
http://blog.derbraunemob.info/2008/07/31/germany-new-case-of-blackface-advertising/
Best regards,
info@
Derbraunemob.de
der braune mob e.V.
media-watch – schwarze deutsche in medien und ??ffentlichkeit
Thanks for sharing this craziness. Will people never get a clue?
Well there were 200,000 people, including lots of Germans, out to see Obama in Berlin, buyt it seems that Blackface still sells products.
This ad is absolutely disgusting. Has Germany not progressed beyond 1945?
LorMarie, It’s hard to understand from my point of view.
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Interesting observations Ayodele.
Interesting observations Ayodele.