{"id":33929,"date":"2013-02-01T07:04:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T11:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33929"},"modified":"2013-02-01T07:05:03","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T11:05:03","slug":"the-racist-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33929","title":{"rendered":"The racist race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coca-Cola has released an ad pre-Superbowl called CokeChase, and perpetually outraged Arab Americans are&#8230;um&#8230;outraged about it;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6uFQAqwbwSg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/01\/31\/us-superbowl-ad-idUSBRE90U03T20130131\">Reuters<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Coke commercial for the Super Bowl is racist, portraying Arabs as backward and foolish Camel Jockeys, and they have no chance to win in the world,&#8221; Imam Ali Siddiqui, president of the Muslim Institute for Interfaith Studies, said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What message is Coke sending with this?&#8221; asked Abed Ayoub, [American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee]&#8217;s director of legal and policy affairs. &#8220;By not including the Arab in the race, it is clear that the Arab is held to a different standard when compared to the other characters in the commercial,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>CBS declined comment. Coca-Cola spokeswoman Lauren Thompson said Coke took a &#8220;cinematic&#8221; approach with the ad, employing the characters as a nod to movies of the past.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Coca-Cola is an inclusive brand enjoyed by all demographics,&#8221; she said in an email. &#8220;We illustrate our core values, from fun and refreshment to happiness, inspiration and optimism across all of our marketing communications.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ayoub said ADC intended to contact Coke and CBS Corp on Thursday to &#8220;hopefully start a dialog.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to know why this happened and how can we fix this if possible before Sunday,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a cowboy and former Vegas showgirl bus driver, I&#8217;m offended, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coca-Cola has released an ad pre-Superbowl called CokeChase, and perpetually outraged Arab Americans are&#8230;um&#8230;outraged about it; &hellip; <a title=\"The racist race\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33929\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The racist race<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}