Microsoft Pulls Black Man From Their Ad
Black folks have been complaining about the “evils” of Photoshop for quite sometime. It’s used for everything from lightening up the skin tones of people of color, to removing people of color from a chosen medium altogether.
A Microsoft ad intended for use in Poland. The original advertisement featured a white woman, an Asian man and a man of African descent. The Polish version of the ads shows everybody, but the black man. He’s replaced by a white man. Perhaps somebody at Microsoft figured there are no black folks in Poland and decided to take him out, but we wouldn’t imagine there are any Asian folks either.
Click Here to Read Entire Story : http://www.eurthisnthat.com/2009/08/27/microsofts-racial-photoshop-flop-over-missing-brother-photos/
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Black folks have been complaining about the “evils” of Photoshop for quite sometime. It’s used for everything from lightening up the skin tones of people of color, to removing people of color from a chosen medium altogether.
A Microsoft ad intended for use in Poland. The original advertisement featured a white woman, an Asian man and a man of African descent. The Polish version of the ads shows everybody, but the black man. He’s replaced by a white man. Perhaps somebody at Microsoft figured there are no black folks in Poland and decided to take him out, but we wouldn’t imagine there are any Asian folks either.
Click Here to Read Entire Story : http://www.eurthisnthat.com/2009/08/27/microsofts-racial-photoshop-flop-over-missing-brother-photos/
Destee