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Author: Jardoga

  • KFC ad sparks racism rows

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    KFC advertisement in Australia sparks race row
    By Nick Bryant
    BBC News, Sydney

    The Australian arm of the fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken has had to withdraw an advertisement after accusations of racial insensitivity.

    It showed a white cricket fan trying to pacify a group of rowdy West Indian fans by handing around fried chicken.

    When the advertisement reached America via the internet there were complaints.

    It was accused of reinforcing a derogatory racial stereotype linking black people in the American deep south with a love of fried food.

    The advertisement from Kentucky Fried Chicken features a white cricket fan dressed in the green and gold of the Australian team surrounded by a group of West Indian supporters, who are dancing and singing to a calypso beat.

    He decides to quieten them down by handing around a bucket of fried chicken.

    Picked up by the American media, the advertisement immediately stirred controversy, because it was alleged to have perpetuated the racial stereotype that black people eat a lot of fried chicken.

    The fast food chain’s head office in America said it was withdrawing the advertisement, and apologised for what it called "any misrepresentation" which might have caused offence.

    It is the second time in three months that something broadcast in Australia has caused a racial stir in America.

    The last flare-up was over an entertainment show on the Australian network Channel Nine in which a group of singers appeared with blacked-up faces to impersonate the Jackson Five.

    Is everyone out to get us?

  • Police outraged by Indian KKK cartoon

    http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2…08/2787928.htm
    Victoria’s Police Association has reacted angrily to a cartoon in an Indian newspaper depicting one of the state’s officers as a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

    The Delhi Mail Today newspaper published the cartoon in response to the murder of Indian student Nitin Garg in Melbourne last weekend.

    The cartoon shows a person in a Ku Klux Klan hood wearing a police badge, with a caption that reads: "We Are Yet To Ascertain The Nature Of The Crime."

    The Indian media has suggested the attack may have been racially motivated, but Melbourne police say there’s no evidence of that.

    Police Association secretary Greg Davies says it is highly offensive to suggest police are not properly investigating the murder.

    "To say that our detectives are going slow on this, or for some reason trying to protect somebody, is incredibly offensive and wrong," he said.

    "It’s based on nothing but obviously a slow news day in Delhi.

    "The identity of the offender from the homicide in Footscray isn’t even known at this stage, so we don’t even know what nationality the offender is.

    "To say it’s a race-based crime is not only premature, but stupid."

    The Police Minister, Bob Cameron, has added his voice to the condemnation of the cartoon.

    "This is just terrible," Mr Cameron said.

    "Victoria Police is a very tolerant organisation and Victoria is a very tolerant state and to suggest that Victoria Police is racist is just plain wrong and it’s offensive to the good police we have here in Victoria.

    "It just doesn’t help anyone at all to have people from the sidelines throwing bricks," he said.

    "We’ve got a good police force and we should let our police force go about their policing business in a sensible and a calm way."

    :ohno: They should just let the police do their job and not jump to conclusions that is was racially motivated. It’s funny that India has 33,000 murders a year and yet they are slamming us, we are far more safer then their country, and police a hell of a lot better.