'Black Man' keeps floors clean and Thailand's marketing super classy

[Karee 4,191]

By Coconuts BangkokMay 8, 2014 / 17:00 ICT

When it comes to cleaning up your messes, nothing can give greater service and servitude than a Black Man.

Why all the horrified expressions, did we say something wrong? What? Only complete mouth-breathing idiots would think that's okay? Who knew.

The reliable image of a black man cleaning your floors in a tuxedo is key to the brand identity of a mop on sale just yesterday at the Big C in On Nut.

His impish smile seems to say, "You won't believe how well I will clean your dirty floors for you."

"Black Man" seems the spiritual successor to "Darkie" a brand of toothpaste once still popular in Southeast Asia (Cleverly rebranded "Darlie")

A quick review finds we're not the first to notice the mind-boggingly awful "Black Man" brand of floor-cleaning products before, but a reader-submitted photograph was the first we'd seen.

Whereas marketers are quick to proclaim their racist imagery "unintended" and the usual trolls will decry "politically correct fascism," this just has no place anywhere near the 21st Century.

Source:

http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2014/05/08/black-man-keeps-floors-clean-and-thailands-marketing-super-classy

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Eh. I haven't had my oatmeal yet. Let me eat first before I start raging.

Edited May 8, 2014 by Su and Marvin

[Jacque67 7,328]

It shows a sweet kind of naivism.

[deleted-05292014 331]

White peoples racist remnants of the past, that's all this is.

First time I was in the Philippines I saw a dessert called Black Sambo, I inquired about it and was told that it's been around forever. It's a remnant from when they used to be a colony of the US and probably some racist White person thought it would be funny to introduce this dessert considering Sambo is a Jim Crow legacy and uniquely American.

My point is, things that have been done in the past still circulate today and many have no idea why. Native Filipinos aren't going to know what Sambo means. So the BS is perpetrated generation after generation.

I've lived, traveled, and studied all over the world and I have seen these Jim Crow era images and depictions of Black Americans throughout my journeys. Just goes to show you the legacy and far reaching effects of American branded racism.

[GandD 5,966]

Cool man. FTR, there's some pretty staunch racism again black people in Asia that has nothing to go with white people.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Cool man. FTR, there's some pretty staunch racism again black people in Asia that has nothing to go do with white people.

Fixed for ya.

Learn how to spell, don't want to make your people look bad.

[GandD 5,966]

[mota bhai 2,675]

He's from Appalachia. It's... different out there.

I believe this happened in Appalachia as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXcBgDJS5TU

[GandD 5,966]

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

You know I got you G!

[deleted-05292014 331]

Cool man. FTR, there's some pretty staunch racism again black people in Asia that has nothing to go with white people.

I'm aware of that as well. I also know the origins of many of these images, the ones you find funny like Buck, are offensive to me.

[GandD 5,966]

I'm aware of that as well. I also know the origins of many of these images, the ones you find funny like Buck, are offensive to me.

Odd that the stereotype of me I posted didn't offend me.

[B_J 2,752]

Odd that the stereotype of me I posted didn't offend me.

You're a white racist ( I think that's redundant ), so offensive stereotypes are funny to you.

[mota bhai 2,675]

White folk have learned to embrace their inner hillbilly.

[Merrytooth 5,748]

Odd that the stereotype of me I posted didn't offend me.

What?? That's you? I feel sad for Kate Upton ...