Claimant says: "I am a Brighthouse customer, and as an African American, I am extremely offended by the promo for an upcoming show entitled Dangerous Attractions. It features owners who keep dangerous animals as pets (all owners shown in promo are white). While flashing pictures of various dangerous animal species, your promo quickly flashed the arm of a black man (when no black owner was featured in the promo) in the same manner that a wild life photographer would photograph the leg of an animal, inferring that the Black man was one o”
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Claimant says: "I am a Brighthouse customer, and as an African American, I am extremely offended by the promo for an upcoming show entitled Dangerous Attractions. It features owners who keep dangerous animals as pets (all owners shown in promo are white). While flashing pictures of various dangerous animal species, your promo quickly flashed the arm of a black man (when no black owner was featured in the promo) in the same manner that a wild life photographer would photograph the leg of an animal, inferring that the Black man was one of those dangerous animals.
I like the Animal Channel, but don't think that such blatant racist innuendos are not being seen by those of us versed in the under-handed subliminal tactics of commercial advertising. I studied Edward Bernays as well. I would like to know who created this promo, and who I get to talk to about your corporation and cable channel sanctioning the subliminal embedding and promotion of such racist garbage.*” ...Show less »