Comments on: Racist Watermelon Soda http://www.wgmd.com/blog/2007/06/14/472/ The WGMD 92.7 FM Delmarva Blog Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:17:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: zimzam http://www.wgmd.com/blog/2007/06/14/472/#comment-6499 zimzam Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:47:06 +0000 http://www.wgmd.com/blog/2007/06/14/472/#comment-6499 It's called target marketing. It’s called target marketing.

]]> By: Pat Patterson http://www.wgmd.com/blog/2007/06/14/472/#comment-6093 Pat Patterson Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:51:29 +0000 http://www.wgmd.com/blog/2007/06/14/472/#comment-6093 Wow, watermelon pop. For some reason or another, that doesn't sound terribly appealing... Wow, watermelon pop. For some reason or another, that doesn’t sound terribly appealing…

]]> By: commonsense http://www.wgmd.com/blog/2007/06/14/472/#comment-6080 commonsense Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:33:19 +0000 http://www.wgmd.com/blog/2007/06/14/472/#comment-6080 So no black person, real or fictional, can ever be used in any advertising for any product that contains watermelon or watermelon flavoring?? It's people like you who perpetuate the stereotypes. Constantly making and then vocalizing the connection between watermelon and black people. Guess what! There ARE black people who like watermelon. Some of them like it enough to even want to advertise for it, but they can't because if they did you'd be screaming from the rooftops that race relations have been set back 60 years! Get over it, everyone else has. So no black person, real or fictional, can ever be used in any advertising for any product that contains watermelon or watermelon flavoring??

It’s people like you who perpetuate the stereotypes. Constantly making and then vocalizing the connection between watermelon and black people. Guess what! There ARE black people who like watermelon. Some of them like it enough to even want to advertise for it, but they can’t because if they did you’d be screaming from the rooftops that race relations have been set back 60 years! Get over it, everyone else has.

]]> By: Pete http://www.wgmd.com/blog/2007/06/14/472/#comment-6075 Pete Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:11:46 +0000 http://www.wgmd.com/blog/2007/06/14/472/#comment-6075 Product of Cawy Bottling Co., Inc. Company established in Cuba 1948. They have both white and black characters on cans. Guess it is a marketing thing. In the Caribbean this would not raise an eyebrow. Product of Cawy Bottling Co., Inc.

Company established in Cuba 1948.

They have both white and black characters on cans. Guess it is a marketing thing. In the Caribbean this would not raise an eyebrow.

]]> By: RonR http://www.wgmd.com/blog/2007/06/14/472/#comment-6073 RonR Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:47:00 +0000 http://www.wgmd.com/blog/2007/06/14/472/#comment-6073 Racism hasn't gone away Dan, it just morphs. That being said, did you try the product? Racism hasn’t gone away Dan, it just morphs. That being said, did you try the product?

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