Does This Ad Make Me Look Racist?–The Sequel

A few days ago we pondered the predictable ruckus over whether Volkswagen’s Super Bowl ad was raaacciiist.  Well, if the Volkswagen ad fails the test of the Sensitivity Police, why not this recent Discovery Card ad, which plays to the stereotype of female black dialect:

Here’s the Volkswagen ad again, for reference and comparison:

There’s a reason most people play little attention to what’s left of the Civil Rights movement, unlike the 1950s and 1960s, when it had considerable moral authority.

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