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Penn College’s New Ad Campaign Deemed Racist For Featuring Black Student Holding A Basketball… 
This stuff is mind-numbing.
Via Campus Reform:
A Pennsylvania college’s new ad campaign which features a black man in a suit holding a basketball was deemed racist over the weekend.
Nyasha Junior, an Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the Howard University School of Divinity, took to Twitter to express her distaste over Harcum College’s new ads which are plastered on 23 buses in Philadelphia. The ads, which ask “Headed in the Right Direction?”, also feature a woman in scrubs and a stethoscope. [...]
Others weighed in on Twitter that the ad is a “lazy and insensitive form of advertising insinuating Black [sic] men excel in athletics above all other fields.”
Forty-two percent of the Harcum student body is African-American.
This stuff is mind-numbing.
Via Campus Reform:
A Pennsylvania college’s new ad campaign which features a black man in a suit holding a basketball was deemed racist over the weekend.
Nyasha Junior, an Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the Howard University School of Divinity, took to Twitter to express her distaste over Harcum College’s new ads which are plastered on 23 buses in Philadelphia. The ads, which ask “Headed in the Right Direction?”, also feature a woman in scrubs and a stethoscope. [...]
Others weighed in on Twitter that the ad is a “lazy and insensitive form of advertising insinuating Black [sic] men excel in athletics above all other fields.”
Forty-two percent of the Harcum student body is African-American.
