# McDonalds hates black people. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 16, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424 "2008-12-16T18:02:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/21 "2008-12-16T19:25:05Z")
> [@atomicbadgerrace](#): > > 😕😕 And all the clerks at the sex shop should use the 12 inch double headed dildoes? Hmm. I think it’s 18" double ended Jelly blue something or another. But, yeah they really should. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/22 "2008-12-16T19:27:24Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > If it makes you feel better, there’s another one that features a very white-WASPY couple getting married with a cake made out of nuggets. They don’t show it, but I’m sure they live in the suburbs and own a yellow lab, as well. I’ve seen that one and it makes me kind of ill seeing a cake made out of McNuggets. Not like lotus boob ill, but “ew…that is a foodstuff which should not exsist!” kind of ill. ---
**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/23 "2008-12-16T19:42:49Z")
> [@Shark\_Sandwich](#): > > I always took this commercial as a parody of the usual over-sappy R&B videos. Because the singer is in love. With chicken McNuggets. Yeah, that’s exactly how I saw it. “wow - you know it’s bad when McDonald’s is making fun of it…” ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/24 "2008-12-16T19:50:52Z")
The McDonalds commercials I’ve seen lately feature either 2 white ladies or 2 white dudes sitting in coffee shops saying how they don’t like to have to act preppy in order to get a latte and are now glad they can get them at McDonalds. The one lady doesn’t know where Paraguay is and the other has never even heard of Paraguay. AN INSULT TO WHITE WOMEN EVERYWHERE! ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/25 "2008-12-16T19:57:37Z")
> [@atomicbadgerrace](#): > > 😕😕 And all the clerks at the sex shop should use the 12 inch double headed dildoes? Are you telling me I didn’t have to do that? Twice? ---
**Author:** ![Hi\_Neighbor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hi_neighbor/32/494_2.png) [@Hi\_Neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Neighbor)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/26 "2008-12-16T20:04:31Z")
How is targeting an audience and trying to capture the “culture” being racist towards them? They are trying to make money off a particular demographic, not insult them. ---
**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/27 "2008-12-16T20:14:30Z")
> [@brazil84](#): > > Seems that McDonald’s [denies these charges of racism](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_79fnYlU7F0) > > 😃 Genius. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/28 "2008-12-16T20:20:24Z")
I remember when all this were nowt but fields, filled with _proper_ racists. And cows. Racist cows. ---
**Author:** ![Bongmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Bongmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bongmaster)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/29 "2008-12-16T21:04:30Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > I know how much people love to be offended, but I’m being whooshed here, correct? I’m nto sure about this particular post but yes, plenty of people found the commercials offensive. I don’t think you can make a commercial these days without offending someone, people really need to get over themselves. Go ahead, make a commercial about overweight, middle-aged whites guys, I won’t get upset! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/30 "2008-12-16T21:18:14Z")
> [@Dead\_Badger](#): > > I remember when all this were nowt but fields, filled with _proper_ racists. And cows. > > Racist cows. Who were then turned into McDonalds hamburgers? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/31 "2008-12-16T21:20:43Z")
McDonalds’ hamburgers are made from cows? Cite? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/32 "2008-12-16T21:24:16Z")
> [@Hi\_Neighbor](#): > > How is targeting an audience and trying to capture the “culture” being racist towards them? They are trying to make money off a particular demographic, not insult them. As are such luminaries as Martin Lawrence and Tyler Perry, but that doesn’t keep me from cringing in my lily-white skin when I see some of the coon-show garbage they produce. ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/33 "2008-12-16T21:24:27Z")
I just think McDonald’s is desperate to get black people to eat there. These are not good times to be in the restaurant business. Now if McDonald’s came out with a new “McCornrow Dog” then I’d say yeah, they hate black people. ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/34 "2008-12-16T21:38:05Z")
Anyone, I mean anyone, who sees racism in that linked commercial and can equate it with a minstrel show while keeping a straight face is either 1. Delusional 2. Retarded 3. Needs to lose the white[-](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=303961)guilt ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/35 "2008-12-16T21:44:08Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > When you’re smart, you don’t get high on your own supply. Well said. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![sugar\_and\_spice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@sugar\_and\_spice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugar_and_spice)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/36 "2008-12-16T21:58:06Z")
Yeah, I’m not seeing what’s offensive in that commercial either, I just see a video spoof. I’d be interested to hear the explanation. ETA: Is is just the fact that McDonald’s is targeting black consumers, period? If yes that’s a valid enough opinion, but that’s a bit different than taking issue with one particular commercial. I mean, if that same commercial were for, I dunno, carrot sticks or granola bars, would you find it offensive? ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/37 "2008-12-16T22:18:48Z")
Back in the 80’s a friend of mine, whgo is white noted that McDonald’s commercials were aimed to either black or white people. He told me that when he saw a commercial aimed at white people it was the general “Wow! A buy one get one free deal for Big Macs!” but when it was aimed a black peope there always were a lot of singing and dancing people breakin’ and jivin’. From what I remember he was right. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/38 "2008-12-16T22:26:58Z")
I’m curious if the OP would have been offended if instead of McNuggets the ad had featured something else off the menu like maybe some fries, or is it connected in the OP’s head that it’s forbidden to mention black people and chicken in the same thought because that’s racist. If the latter is the case then the only rascism in this thread is in the OP’s mind. Racist motherfucker. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/39 "2008-12-16T22:30:43Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > If it makes you feel better, there’s another one that features a very white-WASPY couple getting married with a cake made out of nuggets. They don’t show it, but I’m sure they live in the suburbs and own a yellow lab, as well. Actually, that makes it worse, AFAIC. I don’t think there is anything inherently objectionable to the commercial linked in the OP. But I do find it a bit alarming, and a bit troubling, that when McDonalds wants to sell to white people, they use a wedding (and a disgusting chicken cake). When they target black people, they have 1) a fake R&B song 2) some dancing and 3) the implication that the woman is unfaithful and the man is emasculated. Maybe it’s just me (I think about things too much, I admit it), but the contrast between the white people getting married in the suburbs, and the black woman “stepping out” on her man in an urban area, is just a little too…binary. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/40 "2008-12-16T22:32:44Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > McDonalds’ hamburgers are made from cows? Cite? > > 😉 [But the real shocker is that every McDonald’s hamburger contains chopped-up pieces of–brace yourself–dead cow.](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/681/do-mcdonalds-milkshakes-contain-seaweed) (Yeah, I know it was a joke, but I love that line.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424.md?page=3)