Mountain Dew has pulled an ad from TV they did with rapper Tyler The Creator due to complaints of it being racist, and now it's banned.  They're so serious about the ban, videos of the commercial are popping up on Youtube and being taken down within minutes of upload!  A lot of people actually only saw the normal 60 seconds of the commercial, but there's actually a full 2 min & 30 sec version of it!  Where you see the set up that leads to the 1 minute portion used in the ad.  But, is this really racist?

First off, I think of Freedom of Speech.  The fact is, you have other products doing racy commercials, shows like South Park or Family Guy saying incredibly racist things, Tosh.0 has some of the most racist stuff I've ever seen in my life!  But the fact is, it comes back to something that so many sacrificed their lives for!  Freedom of Speech!  In my opinion, either EVERYTHING is okay to make fun of, or NOTHING is okay.  And if nothing is okay to try and make a joke out of, then where's the freedom of speech in that world?

Here's the situation, the commercial people saw has like 4-5 black guys that look gangster in a line up at a police station and there's also a goat, yes I said goat, in the line up with them.  Tyler the Goat is his name, and he's in a series of Mountain Dew commercials where he goes on a rampage because he can't buy a Mountain Dew.

You have a witness trying to identify the suspect, but she's afraid, of the goat!  The goat is the offender in the commercial.

You have 3 police officers, 2 white males, 1 black male, so immediately I'm thinking how is this racist if one of the cops is a black male?  Beyond that, Tyler the Creator, a black male, a rapper, had a hand in the creation of the commercial.  So what, is he racist against his own kind?  I just used the words "his own kind", well that shouldn't even be used!  There is no "own kind", the fact is, we're all AMERICANS!  No matter what the color of our skin is, our religious beliefs, sexual preference, we're all just like each other, American people trying to pay bills and feed the family.

So thank you to all those that complained and called this commercial racist, because by calling it racist, you made it racist.  Good job!  (sarcasm)

I think the commercial is hilarious and I bet most people would if given the chance to see it!  Especially if they see the FULL VERSION! Because it all starts at a diner, with a couple eating dinner and a server with Mountain Dew, the goat is trying to get it, he can't, so he goes on a rampage, and all that leads up to the "racist" portion of the commercial.  Here's the full version below give it a watch and then scroll down past it to vote in the poll and tell us, is it racist?

**Note** If you get an error on the video below that's because Youtube and Mountain Dew keep pulling it, but I'll keep trying to find good videos and getting them on there.

 

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