You can't be serious. This is a joke. It is funny. You have to lighten up. It isn't an insult to African-Americans. We know that this would never happen in the office. Maybe you should try felching!!! Ha Ha




Daniel Young wrote:

> I saw it. A large football player knocks down employees who violate
> company work rules. I suppose the introduction of the violence of a
> knockdown by a football linebacker into the corporate workplace is
> supposed to be funny. In reality it is a sick piece of propaganda for
> harsh management methods and a sign of bad things to come in the
> American workplace. (It's also an insult to African-Americans, in that
> it makes their representative a figure who achieves success in the
> corporate world by being an instrument of violence.)
>
> The relevance to the product being sold, sneakers I think, is
> problematic. But that is irrelevant to the commercial purpose, which
> is to attract attention to the brand and even cause viewers to
> associate it with the possesssion of irresistable violent power.
>
> As for why Rhizome received the piece of mixed puffery and tecnical
> info, the reason is very simple. The perpetrators of this obnoxious ad
> campaign want to play the artistic audience as well and Rhizome is now
> on that mailing list.
>
> Perhaps this response from list members would be appropriate: Stay
> away from sneakers that use shocking violence to advertise!