I've been alive long enough to know that advertisers, like that fortysomething man who hangs out at high school basketball games even though he has no children, will try to make commercials seem cool to the young kids. You'll see lots of skateboarding, people jumping off of high places, use of slang that went out of style five years ago, it's all part of the game. The ad from Ampd, however, that shows a white kid in a wife beater with a camouflage hat worn cocked to one side on his head is so laughable in its weak attempt to appear hip I actually vomit blood onto my television every time it comes on. The kid doesn't even look like a real kid, he looks like someone who just donned his "white gangsta rapper" costume and is on his way to trick or treat before his mom picks him up and takes him home. This is what we call "trying too hard."Ads We Hate: Ampd white kid
I've been alive long enough to know that advertisers, like that fortysomething man who hangs out at high school basketball games even though he has no children, will try to make commercials seem cool to the young kids. You'll see lots of skateboarding, people jumping off of high places, use of slang that went out of style five years ago, it's all part of the game. The ad from Ampd, however, that shows a white kid in a wife beater with a camouflage hat worn cocked to one side on his head is so laughable in its weak attempt to appear hip I actually vomit blood onto my television every time it comes on. The kid doesn't even look like a real kid, he looks like someone who just donned his "white gangsta rapper" costume and is on his way to trick or treat before his mom picks him up and takes him home. This is what we call "trying too hard."Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. Can you really blame white kids for wanting to be black? Let any white try getting away with what a black has no trouble getting away with and see if they aren't in jail or somwething equal. Blacks do not have to try to succeed, just show their skin color. Compare how many blacks hold job and positions they are not qualified for with the same in the white population. The U.S. government has made it ten times as easy for a black as any white at anything. This is the government's way of keeping the races fighting each other so we won't p[ay any attention to what the governemnt is really doing.
Posted at 2:42AM on Oct 26th 2006 by Otherguy
3. This is in Reference to post #2. You stupid shit, What you said has to be the most bigotted piece of bullshit I've heard since Affirmative Action was put in place. For decades, minorities were held in place by the majority (whites). It took a program such as that to give the minorities a fair chance in life. And as far as the Government being behind this. Bull....there isn't a rock big enough for the Government hide behind to keep sensible American citizens from seeing what is going on. Between George and his oil cronies, Gulf and Afghanistan Wars, perverted Politicians and Child Molesting Priests, we have enough to worry about than someone crying about some white kids acting like there Black.
Posted at 4:05AM on Oct 26th 2006 by The OtherOtherGuy
4. In ref to #2 - what makes you think that being black is all that? Your race is the 2nd most fucked up pieces walking this God given earth. Your kind moved up in this world a few yrs. back and now you all think
that your shit don't stink. Well, all I can say to that is "PEW". You do stink, but worse than AFRICAN AMERICAN are the PUERTO RICANS - they are vermin the lowest of lows. I can't stomach almost every one of them. Call me prejudice, I don't give a shit. SO BE IT.
Posted at 8:40PM on Oct 27th 2006 by Maria
5. thanks for this information
Posted at 7:55AM on Oct 26th 2006 by Tom
6. Weird Al nails this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHBmRvXX6hM
Posted at 9:13AM on Oct 26th 2006 by Bill
7. Wow. I don't even know where to begin.
Otherguy: You don't have a clue. Why don't you give us some actual stats about jobs that African Americans hold that they're not qualified for versus jobs that white americans hold that they're not qualified for? How about some statistics on how white workers make more on average for similar positions? Or maybe even one shred of actual fact to back up your bigotry? There's a reason there are laws about hiring minorities—because that's the only way a-holes like you will do it.
Maria: You said "Call me prejudice, I don't give a shit." How could we not? Did you leave us any other option?
Here's the definition of prejudice:
1. an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
2. any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable.
3. unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, esp. of a hostile nature, regarding a racial, religious, or national group.
You seem proud that you're prejudice. Which means you're proud that you made up your mind about an entire group of people without reason, logic, or knowledge.
Quick question: how is it that you know you don't like just about every Puerto Rican? Have you met all 2.7 million living in the US or the 3 million living in Puerto Rico? You'll give me the answer that you know a few and they were a-holes. Well, I know plenty of white people who are a-holes (yourself included). What does that tell me about white people?
And don't forget, everyone's shit stinks. Even yours.
Posted at 1:59PM on Oct 26th 2006 by Who are these people?
1. umm... I have not seen said ad. But it does sound stupid. I hate white kids who try to be black. Its stupid.
Posted at 11:05PM on Oct 25th 2006 by BananaCannibal