NEW YORK — The first pregame Super Bowl ad controversy of the year has arrived.
A Volkswagen Super Bowl ad that hit the Web on Monday and depicts a white office worker showing his happiness with a Jamaican accent is stirring up online controversy.
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NEW YORK — The first pregame Super Bowl ad controversy of the year has arrived.
A Volkswagen Super Bowl ad that hit the Web on Monday and depicts a white office worker showing his happiness with a Jamaican accent is stirring up online controversy.
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There are so many ads that involve loud music and shouting from hairy white guys, hearing and seeing this one was refreshing. And...I have a friend who moved to the US many years ago with an accent very similar to our Minnesota friend. He came from Barbados and was (and is) gentle, sun-shiny...and white. An artist, Bill Grace, now lives in Israel.