Oreo cookie

[Wilson Gray]

I've seen the commecial and found it to be no more annoying than other
commercials. If you want to piss me off, reprint the Los Angeles Times
interview in which The Beach Boys answered, when asked about the influence
of black music on their music, "We're white and we sing white." (Yes, I know
that they've since changed their tune. <har! har!>) Or the bullshit claim by
The Righteous Brothers that some random black guy in a Jim Crow
club in lily-white Glendale, CA, gave them the idea for their name by
saying, "That's righteous, brother!" about their singing.

Gag me with a spewn!

-Wilson


On 4/25/06, James Smith <jsmithjamessmith at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Sometimes a cookie is just a cookie.
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> --- "Landau, James" <James.Landau at NGC.COM> wrote:
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> > Sunday night on TV I saw a Nabisco commercial for
> > Oreo cookies that starred a pair of
> > African-Americans.
> >
> > Are
> > 1) the Nabisco ad-writers that naïve?  Or
> > 2) is Nabisco deliberately being politically
> > incorrect?  (the show was West Wing!)  Or
> > 3) is Nabisco trying to subtly introduce their new
> > version of the Oreo, which has vanilla cookies on
> > the outside and a chocolate cream filling? Or
> > 4) am I the only white who recognizes the
> > politically-charged second meaning of "Oreo Cookie"
> > (which is in MWCD10 dated as 1969)?
> >
> >
> >
> >     - Jim Landau
> >
> > "White people have no souls"  - Baron Munchausen
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