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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: newmom on August 19, 2011, 06:27:23 PM
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Thoughts??
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44206151/ns/business-school_inc_/
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By Mark R. Bryant
msnbc.com contributor
Nivea USA, maker of skin care products, boosted its profile this week, but not in a civilized way. An ad in Esquire magazine showed a clean-cut black man ready to heave a dark-skinned head with long locks and an unkempt beard, with the words, “Re-civilize yourself.” Reactions fanned across the Web, with accusations ranging from racism and ignorance to we’re-reading-too-much-into-this.
“Are you suggesting that Black men are uncivilized to begin with? There is too much history rooted in reducing Black people to comparisons to apes, monkeys, etc.,” wrote one blogger. Another comment, under an Advertising Age article about the tempest, said, “There is more racism in the assumptions necessary to interpret the ad as racist than in the copy itself.”
This ad from Nivea received no blast of criticism, unlike the similar ad above.
The venting appeared across Twitter and on such sites such as Good, Colorlines, The Root and Roland Martin’s blog, along with mainstream media sites, including The New York Times and Advertising Age. (A similar ad image, but with a white man and no reference to re-civilizing, garnered no such blowback.) Heeding the din, Nivea USA apologized for the ad, which promoted skin care products for men.
A spokesman for the Nivea’s parent company, Germany's Beiersdorf AG, passed along this mea culpa: “We are deeply sorry for a recent ‘Re-civilized’ NIVEA For Men ad. This ad was inappropriate and offensive. Diversity and equal opportunity are crucial values at Beiersdorf and we do not tolerate insensitivity. It was never our intention to offend anyone and for this we are deeply sorry. This ad will never be used again.”
Usually companies love free buzz, even when it’s not wholly positive. But Nivea’s misstep may leave a sour taste for some prospective customers. Of course, Nivea isn't the latest company to get flak over racial insensitivities. Earlier this year an ad for Dove body wash stirred controversy for showing a black woman in front of a "before" skin panel and a white women in front of the "after."
The makers of Dove stood by the ad and said it had been misinterpreted. When we last looked, the ad was still on the company’s website.
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Racist post reported
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thats a funny gif ;D
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Well, Nivea does make skin whiter products...Nivea knows better, they did it on purpose.
And one of the most famous singers alive had Natty dreads...
It's no diff than laundry products in the past using dark skinned babies ro show how white their products get clothes...
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thats a funny gif ;D
agreed.
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Racist post reported
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you FFS I didn't dream us the campaign or anything. Was curious about if others did..
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you FFS I didn't dream us the campaign or anything. Was curious about if others did..
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as gh15 says negro culture rules america now so who cares if it's racist
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I don't find it racist at all.
People make the biggest fucking deal out of stupid shit nowadays.
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It's only racist if you want it to be.
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Oh FFS ::) Give me a break ::) The ad is just depicting the guy throwing away his old self and revealing the new him. Just like an old hippie getting a makeover.
It's only racist if you want it to be.
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FFS...runningmom should be able to hate on whoever he wants. So what if he despises Nivea users.
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I think they means camel jockey muslims need to shave that shit wash their faces and get with the program
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bike nut
loves runningmom
crushes on her
almost evry post
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Nivea sucks! Way to f'g greasy :-X
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Nivea sucks! Way to f'g greasy :-X
Greasy as cum dripping off your chin?
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Greasy as cum dripping off your chin?
Cum isn't greasy. I would think you would know this from personal experience.
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Who gives a flying fuck, stupid minorities always bitching
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Greasy as cum dripping off your chin?
Big Boss? What have you done to nzmm?
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Big Boss? What have you done to nzmm?
There were "things" :-X
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It's only racist if you want it to be.
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Racist machinima, negro on the run... :o
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There were "things" :-X
Cock Hunta finally track you down ??? ;D
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Has nothing to do with races but only "against" a certain look. I find the ad a bit silly, nothing more.
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Cock Hunta finally track you down ??? ;D
Close actually ;D
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Greasy as cum dripping off your chin?
The Biggest Boss that I know of is Rick Ross...
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I personally didn't see anything wrong with it was just curious
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I personally didn't see anything wrong with it was just curious
Of course you didn't because you are racist.
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Of course you didn't because you are racist.
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The Biggest Boss that I know of is Rick Ross...
I am Ronnie Coleman Boss, he is Dorian Yates Boss. I win 8)
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bike nut
loves runningmom
crushes on her
almost evry post
lol no shit, he must be a jealous ex who still in love with her or something like that
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LMFAO! ! ! !
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on the topic of racism & cosmetics, don't you think it's racist that all plasters are white or flesh coloured, I mean what about black people plasters :D
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on the topic of racism & cosmetics, don't you think it's racist that all plasters are white or flesh coloured, I mean what about black people plasters :D
people here in America call them bandaids
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http://ynotplast.obedih.com/?p=20
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Cool...we still have just the one colour here, guess apartheid isn't quite dead here yet ;D
I dated this American girl and it was quite funny all the differences between certain words/phrases.
*What you call "Traffic lights" we call "Robots" here.
*A "Flash light" we call a "Torch"
*When you say "I'm pissed" it doesn't mean angry here, it means you're Drunk.
*A "fanny" means a "Vagina" to us South Africans...so when Americans say they "fell on their fanny" that pretty amusing to us.
Can't remember them all, but there's quite a few like that :D
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A multimillion $ company and this add went through their approval board hahaha that's either a very risky move by the advertisement board or directors or somebody fucked up and is not working within the Nivea empire anymore.
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i use nivea