Japanese TV Ad Features Monkey As Obama
This from Sweetness & Light
The Japanese love monkeys. They use monkeys in commercials constantly. Heck, Speed Racer, which started out as a Japanese cartoon in the 1960s, even has a monkey character. It’s a Japanese thing we Americans just don’t understand.
All that to say that it seems somewhat over-the-top that some African-Americans living in Japan would’ve gotten so dyspeptic that a Japanese telecommunications company used a monkey in an TV commercial that was a parody of the U.S. presidential race, with the simian wearing a suit and standing behind a podium with a sign reading “Change.”
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Sweetness & Light has previously noted, the very Caucasian Mr.Bush has been and is still regularly compared to monkeys and even Curious George. But NOW depicting someone as a monkey and in particularly “the messiah” is offensive.
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