"Westside's Finest", a short film by Kenya Barris...

[Remote]

Oh snap. I think the guy from the 1985 commercial was the IT guy on The Office.

 

[DarlingNikki]

Coke's recipe wasn't the only thing influenced by white supremacy: through the 1920s and ’30s, it studiously ignored the African-American market. Promotional material appeared in segregated locations that served both races, but rarely in those that catered to African-Americans alone.

By the late 1940s, black sales representatives worked the Southern Black Belt and Northern black urban areas, black fashion models appeared in Pepsi ads in black publications, and special point-of-purchase displays appeared in stores patronized by African-Americans. The company hired Duke Ellington as a spokesman. Some employees even circulated racist public statements by Robert W. Woodruff, Coke's president.

Perhaps this would be cute if accurate. Just a lil more info:

In the largest settlement ever in a racial discrimination case, the Coca-Cola Company agreed yesterday to pay more than $156 million to resolve a federal lawsuit brought by black employees.

The lawsuit, filed in April 1999, accused Coke of erecting a corporate hierarchy in which black employees were clustered at the bottom of the pay scale, averaging $26,000 a year less than white workers. As redress, the settlement provides as many as 2,000 current and former black salaried employees with an average of $40,000 in cash, while the four plaintiffs whose names are on the lawsuit will receive up to $300,000 apiece.

And Coke is my favorite soda, but let’s be serious.

 

[Peauxboy]

I miss that hard hair style look.

She took me back to a special time in my life with that.

Belly nod was fire too.

 

[Elim Garak]

Is she showing ass?

Yes it's actually a sex scene in the commercial with her getting backshots.

 

[Jasonmask]

I’m watching tv rn and I watch it a lot I never seen this commercial before I’m getting tired of the loops lol

 

[murksiderock]

Perhaps this would be cute if accurate. Just a lil more info:




And Coke is my favorite soda, but let’s be serious.

Thanks for the education, I wasn't aware and many other black people aren't, I'm sure. This commercial starts in 1975, so maybe (just a guess)---the 70s was a turning point in how Coke affiliated with black people?

 

[Splakavellie504]

Perhaps this would be cute if accurate. Just a lil more info:




And Coke is my favorite soda, but let’s be serious.

My grandparents were loyal pepsi drinkers and i didnt understand it until I listened to a soda episode from the Business Wars podcast a couple years ago. Pepsi not only marketed to black people in the 40s but also created black departments and had black sales people and managers.

 

[Don Snow]

Damn I’m feeling this, make this a sitcom that jumps back and forth through the decades

 

[Fillerguy]

That negro's hairline would never survive 20 fukking years

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

My nikka from OFWG really out here making moves

 

[Slimkid07]

"I think we're gonna be alright..."

 

[maxamusa]

My nikka from OFWG really out here making moves

Breh he killed on "The Bear"

 

[spliz]

its 50 cents down the ST


yooo the 90s one I felt that

Word. lol. Nothing like the 90s.

 

[murksiderock]

Gotta update thread title, it's actually a short film called Westside's Finest:



I've watched this shyt 10 times, I don't know if it's becomes I'm growing older (36 in June so '15 and '05 resonate greatly with me) or what, but this is one of the best things Kenya Barris has ever done. An outstanding depiction of a black family and community...

 

[bnew]

its 50 cents down the ST


yooo the 90s one I felt that

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