Is this even real?!

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I doubt they MEANT to be racist but why risk offending people? Why did the people have to be white and black people? Why couldn't the black person be painted white? Its using race not the idea of too colours which aren't even the actual colour of the races involved.

Why not risk it? I think the biggest problem with race relations today is few people feel comfortable talking about the issue at all. Political correctness is a disease that is eroding the ability to discuss many things, and race has been eliminated completely. Any statement they made was not racist. If anything, in underlines a very real struggle that still goes on today, but people are too afraid to confront. I think until people get over the fact that talking about race isn't taboo, stuff like this will be viewed as racist by people simply not wanting to offend. Bottom line is this isn't offensive to people comfortable with race issues, and that seems to be very few people.

I think the fact that everyone is so damn uncomfortable with this ad underlines the bigger problem here. That problem is that it isn't racist to call anything like it is. A duck is a duck and a house is a house and a car is a car, and an Asian is an Asian, a Native American is a Native American, and a billboard ad with a series of black and white people struggling while representing a product is still a fucking ad with a series of black and white people struggling while representing a product. If people become afraid to call something what it is just because it involves race, then it just proves there is something that needs to be changed in society.

It?s like Elcoholic says if they were colors not representing a real race, then no one would have looked twice at it. But since it does, old ladies are fainting and Politian?s are bitching and around the world people?s underwear is crawling up their ass. People need to talk about this stuff, and not fear being labeled a racist. That is a barrier the WHOLE WORLD needs to get past. This being as issue just makes it obvious that there is a problem of barriers. People don't think they should be crossed, but if there are barriers, we really haven't made any progress have we?

While the ad is still ugly as hell with what appears to be a poodle on one persons head, it think it was a very bold decision by Sony, and one of the best they have made in some time. Way be heralds of truly furthering race relations, even if most people are too ignorant and afraid to see the truth in it.