Comments on: Representing White Supremacy/Digital Slavery http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2007/08/07/white-supremacy-and-digital-slavery/ Sat, 07 May 2011 16:36:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Ivy http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2007/08/07/white-supremacy-and-digital-slavery/comment-page-1/#comment-413 Ivy Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:57:36 +0000 http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2007/08/07/white-supremacy-and-digital-slavery/#comment-413 It is hard to imagine that no one involved in what must be a lengthy production process was able (or willing?) to identify the subtext in this image. This is a really shocking picture. I don't know which is more disturbing, the fact that ads like this are still emerging or that people are so immersed in the toxic culture that they are unable to see it. It is hard to imagine that no one involved in what must be a lengthy production process was able (or willing?) to identify the subtext in this image.

This is a really shocking picture. I don’t know which is more disturbing, the fact that ads like this are still emerging or that people are so immersed in the toxic culture that they are unable to see it.

]]> By: jacqui dornbrack http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2007/08/07/white-supremacy-and-digital-slavery/comment-page-1/#comment-83 jacqui dornbrack Mon, 13 Aug 2007 16:02:15 +0000 http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2007/08/07/white-supremacy-and-digital-slavery/#comment-83 Well done on your response to a highly insulting and offensive ad. It is both racialised and gendered and the physical positioning, as well as the linguistic positioning of the black men (the employees whose power will be maximised to enrich the white man) is so subservient and demeaning. Despite the argument that the black men represent sprinters, it is strange that they are all black and shaven-a case of 'all blacks look the same?' Why is the white man presented as looking so smug? I think this blatant insensitivity needs far more than an apology. Well done on your response to a highly insulting and offensive ad. It is both racialised and gendered and the physical positioning, as well as the linguistic positioning of the black men (the employees whose power will be maximised to enrich the white man) is so subservient and demeaning. Despite the argument that the black men represent sprinters, it is strange that they are all black and shaven-a case of ‘all blacks look the same?’ Why is the white man presented as looking so smug? I think this blatant insensitivity needs far more than an apology.

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