On this occasion, I have to actually give credit to the Crunk and Disorderly blog for this story. A friend of mine happened to catch this report on Crunk subsequently asking my opinion regarding any racial overtones with the above ad. In a nutshell, apparently the ad is part of a marketing campaign to promote Sony's PSP video game system now available in white. For the moment the billboards appear to be only in Holland. What is equally disturbing is that a great many of Crunk's commentators did not believe this ad to be racist. It has become evident that our imagery has been desecrated to such a degree without public rebuttal that I suspect many in our community are not equipped to identify racism or even combat it. This is what the hip hop generation is about.....nothing.
The civil rights generation would have been far more vigilent towards these issues but unfortunately they have failed to convey these skills to their so-called hiphop progenies. Now, you have a billboard with two women representing their respective races through color (yea...that's not racist or original) with the White female(representing the "white" PSP game) portraying a dominant position towards her "black" counterpart and many Crunk supporters failed to see what this means and even went as far as deeming it a question of art. My how far have we fallen. Further, the billboard has a caption that states, "White is coming." This is not to wholly dump on Crunk but it is quite telling in regards to a lost generation and believe me when I say....Stevie Wonder could have seen this....why not them?
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