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Thread ID: 8850 | Posts: 3 | Started: 2003-08-07
2003-08-07 22:13 | User Profile
Progressive Insurance, a company [url=http://www.progressive.com/progressive/history.asp#1]founded in 1937[/url] by a couple of lawyers named Joseph Lewis and Jack Green, (Jews?), is currently running a commercial that shows a Negro talking to an insurance adjuster about a White male who's embedded in his wall after a rough one-on-one basketball game between the Negro and the White victim. The White insurance agent asks the negro if he should call for help and the African says no, he's just looking for the best damage estimate. We all know about the Chante Mallard case, where a White male was left embedded in her windshield for several days in her garage, and we all know what the reaction would be if Progressive ran an ad that featured a White person talking to an insurance agent about getting a damage estimate for his pickup truck bumper while a black was still hooked to it, (James Byrd dragging death.) Just a heads up for the ODers. BTW, Progressive's already been in trouble for an ad that ticked off the men's rights groups: [url=http://www.menstuff.org/issues/byissue/progressive.html]http://www.menstuff.org/issues/byissue/pro...rogressive.html[/url]
2003-08-08 02:52 | User Profile
Dear Editor, TV GUIDE:
I was watching a golf match on ESPN on the 23rd of Oct., which was interrupted by a tasteless, offensive, and racist commercial, sponsored by the ESPN Network.
It showed an African American football player, charging around the campus of a white college, and bowling over white men and women, bragging about it, and grinning. The final scene showed this man arrogantly strutting off the scene, which was littered with injured white lying all over the field.
Try reversing the scene in your mind now. Show a big hunk of a blonde footballer on the Howard campus bowling over African American students, and boasting of his achievement. There would be howls of outrage from liberals of every shape and color.
This is just the latest example I have noticed in commercials as well as scripts, exalting the African American at the expense of the denigration of the white man. I think it is time to halt this racist nonsense.
For publication,
Edward J. Toner Jr. 481B Jason Place Brick NJ 08724 (732) 840-4203
2003-08-08 04:59 | User Profile
Recluse, yes I've seen that commercial. I'm glad I am not a Progressive customer.
Do you drive on BF Goodrich tires? Does this advertisement, shown in magazines like Truckin' bother you??
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Do you do business through Ebay.com? If a small minority takes offensive to say, Country music will Ebay take steps to remove the sale of those items as well??
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