Heineken has removed a commercial for its light beer after some complaints that it was racist.
The ad featured a bartender sliding a bottle of Heineken light. The bottle passes several black people before it arrives to a lighter-skinned woman. The tag line: Sometimes lighter is better.
Hip-hop star Chance the Rapper on Sunday tweeted the commercial was “terribly racist.” He said he thought some companies were purposely “putting out noticeably racist ads so they can get more views.”
In a statement, Heineken says while the ad was referencing Heineken Light, “we missed the mark.”
Heineken drew praise last year for its “Open Your World” commercials, which featured people of different backgrounds discussing their viewpoints.
(AP)
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I was really excited to track down and find this seemingly hilarious ad, but then I was disappointed.
If you see it, you realize it takes someone with an insanely liberal imagination to dream up that there was race in play. The people that go through life seeing every little thing as racial, THEY are the racist ones.
I was never offended when there commercials like “You don’t have to be Jewsih to like ….” and showing (as example) a Native North American eating the product.
LOL in this day and age someone’s clueless