Thursday, October 23, 2008

Corporate Media Struggles To Make Race About Race - The Power of Suggestion

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey DV,

I'm a big Marvel comics fan, and they have this big story they're doing where green skinned aliens have begun "body snatching" human beings, replacing superheroes and political leaders with Skrulls. Lately, they've been doing ads that say, "Embrace Change" across the top, and underneath it you see three kids sitting eating ice cream. Only one of them is a green skinned Skrull.

Google "Marvel Embrace Change"

Now, maybe i'm reading too much into this, but could they perhaps be subconsciously implying something else here. I mean, it's only too obvious which candidate's entire platform has been change. And these ads seem to be saying, Yeah, embrace change and you'll have green skinned aliens holding hands with your kids. (And after reading the "Matrix" thing from Mike's blog, I have the "all monsters in all movies are supposed to represent black people." thing on my mind.) Anyway, just something I was thinking about.