{"id":3355,"date":"2011-11-18T15:21:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T20:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/11\/18\/is-this-commercial-racist\/"},"modified":"2011-11-18T15:21:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T20:21:32","slug":"is-this-commercial-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2011\/11\/18\/is-this-commercial-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"is this commercial racist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/D2VYD47-u8Q?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/D2VYD47-u8Q?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nI saw this commercial for the first time on tv tonight and I thought, hang on, is this, if not quite racist, at least a bit dodgy? Beheaded male and female Black bodies and stereotypical African imagery, all very sensual to sell a brand of chocolate called <em>Afro<\/em>disiac? When the reality of chocolate production even in 2011 still depends for a frighteningly large extent on slave labour, including child labour in cocoa production in West Africa? To be fair Kraft foods, the owner of Cote d&#8217;Or, has signed the socalled <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cocoa_Protocol\">Cocoa protocol<\/a> which aims to child labour in cocoa production altogether, but as the Wikipedia article says, &#8220;ten years after implementation, it is unclear if the protocol had any effect in reducing child labor&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSo yeah, it makes me a bit uncomfortable watching this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this commercial for the first time on tv tonight and I thought, hang on, is this, if not quite racist, at least a bit dodgy? Beheaded male and female Black bodies and stereotypical African imagery, all very sensual to sell a brand of chocolate called Afrodisiac? When the reality of chocolate production even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,199,242],"tags":[1484,2467,1485],"class_list":["post-3355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-capitalism","category-racism","category-video","tag-chocolate","tag-racism","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}