{"id":8992,"date":"2015-08-18T09:46:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T09:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/02\/03\/jamaicans-say-vws-super-bowl-ad-isnt-racist-white-americans-disagree\/"},"modified":"2015-08-18T09:46:20","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T09:46:20","slug":"jamaicans-say-vws-super-bowl-ad-isnt-racist-white-americansdisagree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/8992","title":{"rendered":"Jamaicans say VW’s Super Bowl ad isn’t racist; White Americans disagree"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Ragashanti\/status\/298229091524554752\n
Jamaicans like the ad:<\/p>\n\n\n
Everyone calling the Jamaican Super Bowl ad racist obviously no nothing about our culture. We love & endorse it.<\/p>\n
— The Wanted Princess (@BreeTheWanted) February 4, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n As I fellow Jamaican…VW’s ad was very funny not racist…people need to chill<\/p>\n — Allana (@ajpersaud) February 4, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n But what do Jamaicans know? Some white Americans insist they know better:<\/p>\n\n\n OMG THIS AD IS SO RACIST.<\/p>\n — Dylan (@Phazon117) February 4, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Racist VW ad is racist.<\/p>\n — Natalie Be’er (@natalierachel) February 4, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Good to see #VW<\/a> go with the white guy pretending to be Jamaican racist ad. #friedchickenandwatermelon<\/a><\/p>\n — Ira Socol (@irasocol) February 4, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Well that VW Jamaican ad was embarrassingly racist.<\/p>\n — Drew McKevitt (@drewmckevitt) February 4, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n It just me or was VW’s ad incredibly racist? “white people doing jamaican accents? Classic!” – some coked up VW exec.<\/p>\n — Andrew Garaventa (@AJGaraventa) February 4, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Jamaican accent ad made me feel uncomfortable.<\/p>\n — rachelsklar (@rachelsklar) February 4, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Am I the only one that thought the Jamaican accent VW ad just now was vaguely racist?<\/p>\n — Michael W (@mworringer) February 4, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n What the fuck is this shit?? Why does he have a Jamaican accent in @vw<\/a> ad?? And I thought Jar Jar Binks was racist. #SuperBowl<\/a> #NotBuyingIt<\/a><\/p>\n — The Opinioness (@OpinionessWorld) February 4, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n \n Maybe it is time for some people to dial down their racial-sensitivity meters a notch or two.<\/p> Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2013\/02\/03\/jamaicans-say-vws-super-bowl-ad-isnt-racist-white-americans-disagree\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/Ragashanti\/status\/298229091524554752 Jamaicans like the ad: Everyone calling the Jamaican Super Bowl ad racist obviously no nothing about our culture. We love & endorse it. — The Wanted Princess (@BreeTheWanted) February 4, 2013 As I fellow Jamaican…VW’s ad was very funny not racist…people need to chill — Allana (@ajpersaud) February 4, 2013 But what do Jamaicans know? … Continue reading Jamaicans say VW’s Super Bowl ad isn’t racist; White Americans disagree<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/14398695821215-vw-ad.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}