Blackface Is Back In Fashion
August 17, 2007
What’s with this new trend of advertising agencies having no racial intelligence? Christ. Take us back to PCs 90s, please. Clearly, the advertising world needs more minorities on its roster - women, African-Americans, people with brains.
Unicef Germany ran some recent spots that made us choke on our bagel. Four print PSAs show “four German kids who appeal for solidarity with their contemporaries in Afrika.” The tagline for the one above reads, ““I’m waiting for my last day in school, the children in Africa still for their first one” The ads have rightfully been pulled. They were created pro bono by German agency Jung von Matt/Alste.
Via Radar
More: McCann’s Erickson Is Color Blind (and not in a good way)
August 17, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Alster. it’s a river.
August 17, 2007 at 6:08 pm
High Jive’s been posting about racism in adland for years.
Check him out at: http://multicultclassics.blogspot.com/
August 18, 2007 at 5:03 am
Yikes.