[A-List] FW: NOT ACCEPTABLE

["Craven, Jim" <jcraven@xxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Message

 

I received the following information from a friend.

 

On December 2nd and 4th I witnessed a commercial being aired on
WWLP-TV22. The commercial depicted the US Calvary's use of cellular phones
to better defeat the Indigenous Peoples who's lives were already the prime
target of extermination by the US Government in a claymation format. The
commercial is distributed by Wireless Zone, a n a tionwide business or
cellular phone services.

 

I would like to confirm this information, and do a follow up interview for an article I wish to write for Swans, a bi-weekly journal. The author of the email mentioned a letter that the GM had written. I did not receive that letter: could you please forward that information.  I have already contacted the President and GM of Wireless Zone and asked for verification and explanation. 

 

I was shocked when I read about this blatant racist advertisement. Imagine showing a crusader with a bloody sword reporting on his Wireless Zone phone that he had just slaughtered Muslim women and children, calling it a great victory for Jesus.  Imagine a slave trader calling up a plantation owner about a new shipment he just rounded up, as the slaves board the vessel, so he can corner the market.  Imagine a Nazi concentration camp officer using his Wireless Zone phone to order his SS officers to burn the bodies a bit faster because the Allies were getting closer. If these are not acceptable, then why a commerical depicting a more efficient killing of American Indians? 

 

Dr. Gerard Donnelly Smith

English Department, Clark College

Vancouver, WA   360-992-2478