“Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.”
Bertrand Russell
Ellen is a passionate activist for a large disenfranchised demographic being discriminated by those in power.
The Wall Street bubble bust created a financial tsunami that was felt the worst [...]
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The fight against health care reform is in full force. Two polar opposites are generating surges of electricity in the media and the masses, so it seems. On one end of the spectrum are powerful special interests and uninformed people fighting for profits and the status quo. The other side has President Obama, health care reformers and [...]
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Posted in Advertising, Arts, Culture, Media on Jul 23rd, 2009
If you took Dave Chappelle, Dr. Ruth, Dr. Phil, Noam Chomsky, William Prescott and mixed them all together you would get Gustavo Arellano. He has been labeled by some Mexicans on one end of the spectrum as a Vendido (sell out) and by others a quintessential intelligent articulate writer and every thing in between.
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During the presidential campaign and post election the GOP “brand” was compared to dog food. Needless to say the brand was seriously damaged and GOP leaders quickly came up with a rebranding strategy. Fast forward to the present and the once powerful “brand” is still in shambles.
In fact from a marketing perspective, it is so [...]
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Posted in Advertising, Media, Race on Jun 3rd, 2009
Freelance writer, novelist, and screenwriter Erica Kennedy’s Facebook group, Feminista’s Advertising Hall of Fame (or Lame?), documents the “best and worst examples of commercial advertising.” In fact, this winner, above, isn’t an ad, as American Apparel rushed to make clear, shortly after the page ran in i-D Magazine back in 2007, but part of that [...]
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Posted in Advertising, Entertainment, Media, Race on Apr 29th, 2009
Thankfully, it appears that the Six Flags chain has retired last year’s version of its current ad campaign, the extensive run of which led me to write the following post on my blog, MEDIA ASSASSIN.
—Harry Allen
I’m surprised Racialicious hasn’t picked this apart, yet: Six Flags’ “More Flags, More Fun!” campaign, and its English-gargling Asian pitchman.
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Posted in Advertising, Media, Race on Mar 25th, 2009
“Images of Black women that are in fact ‘national, racial, and historical hallucinations’ have been ingrained into the collective conscience of the United states since slavery. Black women have been depicted either naked, generally in an ethnographic context, or as laborers, usually domestic, their social status playing a crucial role in the development of visual [...]
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