Comments on: Beverage company marketing racism?

By: jamil2008

jamil2008 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:00:33 +0000

I just called the number he gave for the Arizona company. You guys should hear the tone that was used in giving the “press statement” about the can cover. My thing is, they could have used any other “southern” image and it would have been tasteful-maybe. But to pick a plantation out of all things southern is truly an insult. In their response, instead of apologizing for there insensitivity, the Arizona rep tries to rationalize it. BOYCOTT ARIZONA!!!!!!NOT JUST THE TEA BUT ALL GOODS THAT COMPANY DISTRIBUTES!!!!!!

By: FlyGemini

FlyGemini — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:35:43 +0000

I”ll chime in and say I happened to see the can in the fridge at the gas station, and the picture is so little you can barely tell what color any of the people are. But from the little I could see, the lady looked white to me. I hope people weren’t dumb enough to call that number lol

Sandra, you should be ashamed of yourself for posting this without checking for yourself!

By: 2thick4u

2thick4u — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:13:14 +0000

I was about to say…READ your comments and looked for myself…once again Sandra wrong!!!

By: sharnell

sharnell — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:21:33 +0000

Okay, I do not post to blogs, but I had to respond. pinky2083 posted a link for the Arizona site. If you look on page 6 this label is shown on the bottle and can product. So, Sandra look look again.

By: Goliano

Goliano — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:07:20 +0000

Next you’ll be wantin’ me to give up my Aunt Jemima Waffles, Mrs. Butterworth’s Syrup and Uncle Ben’s Converted Rice… ain’t hap’nin, captain.

By: ReadTheBlog

ReadTheBlog — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:11:14 +0000

Oh, and also, it be nice if we used our energy to fight something that mattered…

By: ReadTheBlog

ReadTheBlog — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:02:11 +0000

Never seen the can before in my life…

By: Sandra Rose

Sandra Rose — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 05:10:43 +0000

Thank you all for judging for yourselves! This is why I say my readers are the most intelligent in the blogosphere! The consensus is that this is a hoax.

By: hmm

hmm — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:35:55 +0000

Ok I drink this tea faithfully. When I saw this I immediately pulled my gallon out of the fridge and looked very closely. As I mentioned I have a gallon so my picture is bigger. I completely agree with #30. No where on here is a slave, maid, or black person. If anything all three people are white! I agree that we need to stop trying to find every little thing and make an issue out of it. I could see if it really was a slave on there, but it’s not. When we do things like this we further create the divide between whites and blacks. Plantations still exist, even if there is no longer slavery. Old houses still exist like that in the south and people get paid to re-enact that period. All this picture are doing is showing a classical view of the south and not necessarily a plantation.

By: crystal

crystal — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:26:33 +0000

that remind me of that TOP POP, tropical fantasy and the C&C bootleg Coke sodas that are 50Cent a bottle in the hood, (it is good when your low on cash or to wash down that pizza or lunch that ran you like 6 dollars. But wait do some of you remember when red man and method man had juice drinks? i think with snapple? and the master P BBQ potatoe chips? anyway they were salty as hell and had too much damm BBQ powder on them, they made you go uhhhhhhhhhh hell na na na.

Never seen those chips in the Midtown Manhattan stores.