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Congresswoman Upset With Pepsi’s Super Bowl Ad

 


As African-American's oftentimes we are overly sensitive to our portrayal due to our past history of being vilified in the media. The depiction of men being sex-crazed brutes who lust after angelic looking white women is well documented in Hollywood. So I understand the need for us to be portrayed in a positive light. Nevertheless, every year Super Bowl commercials are mad to be funny and entertaining.[/p]U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) did not see laughter in the popular Pepsi ad that aired during Super Bowl Sunday. She went as far as taking her complaints to the House floor to express her distaste with Pepsi Max’s “Love Hurts” ad.[/p]“In this month of African-American history where we’re trying to celebrate what is good and great, it certainly seems ridiculous that Pepsi would utilize this kind of humor. It was not humorous. It was demeaning — an African-American woman throwing something at an African-American male and winding up hitting a Caucasian woman.”[/p]She went on to say: “I think that we can come together in a much better way, sell Pepsi, and as well talk about good nutrition. But, frankly, I consider this insulting, and so did many other women of all colors.  That is why I’m so disappointed with the Pepsi advertisement that showed a demeaning role for African American women, in an ad that showed a can being thrown and being utilized to wound someone else or hit someone else…”[/p]What you think?[/p]


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