# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@Nicolas\_Bourbaki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicolas_Bourbaki)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/61 "2008-12-18T03:24:28Z")
[it is a PARODY please stop being retarded now](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikI4fN5YurY) Perhaps you would find better use of your righteous indignation researching the thesis that _R. Kelly_ hates black people, or indeed, humankind in general. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/62 "2008-12-18T13:32:14Z")
> [@Jolly\_Roger](#): > > 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. I even remember a black comedian from the era, or at least the early 1990s, comment on the phenomenon in classic “white people do this, black people do _THIIIIS_” style. Why is it considered good when high-end products (luxury cars, houses, and so on) are marketed towards minorities while they’re marketed to the mass market at the same time, but it’s bad with low-end products? Sure, I can understand outrage if McDonalds was targeted _only_ at blacks, like menthol cigarettes and Church’s Fried Chicken, but it isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![JR\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JR\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JR_Brown)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/63 "2008-12-18T17:15:21Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > Did you maybe mean “crooning”? I doubt it: “coon” = (hopefully) obsolete offensive term for black people. JRB ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/64 "2008-12-19T00:48:15Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > Lick my shoes. They taste like Mcnuggets at all? Them’s good eatn’ boss! ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/65 "2008-12-19T01:33:15Z")
> [@Omegaman](#): > > They taste like Mcnuggets at all? > > Them’s good eatn’ boss! I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/66 "2008-12-19T20:21:51Z")
> [@guizot](#): > > I think just about _everyone_ lives near one. But people probably just go to the closest one at the moment. It’s not like, “Oh, I don’t like that McDonald’s. The one in our neighborhood has much better food.” I’ll go out of my way to go to the Lebanon one rather than the saltier (and it’s hard to overdo the salt when it comes to my McD’s), staler White River Junction location. There are few people of color here but we get the variety of commercials–I thought the R&B R Kelly crooning one was cute, and the wedding cake is a food fantasy of mine. All colors of people look corny in McD’s commercials. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/67 "2008-12-19T22:25:19Z")
Hey, gigi is really close to me! ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/68 "2008-12-20T04:08:32Z")
> [@Freejooky](#): > > instead, it’s an endless stream of embarrassing, downright offensive and stereotypical minstrel shows. The outright cooning and clowning is the type of stuff that went out with Al Jolson - wide-eyed, red-lipped stereotypes rapping about “make it a double, muthafucka!” Hmm… ad’s are certianly AA crooning themed but it’s more for comedic effect I don’t see [“Girl, you got a 10-piece/please don’t be stingy”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rb7qt7xkj0) = [the context you seem to imply.](http://ohdeargodnotanigger.ytmnd.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/69 "2008-12-20T04:35:36Z")
> [@astro](#): > > Hmm… ad’s are certianly AA crooning themed but it’s more for comedic effect I don’t see [“Girl, you got a 10-piece/please don’t be stingy”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rb7qt7xkj0) = [the context you seem to imply.](http://ohdeargodnotanigger.ytmnd.com/) Is that second link supposed to do something? The page title (a very bad word for black people, followed by “alarm”) indicates that it’s meant to be some sort of shock page with a sound file or something, the kind we’re not supposed to link to without warning. But I did click on it and all I see is a blank page with a “YTMND” (the hosting provider) logo. So either way I’d suggest that other posters not bother clicking the link. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/70 "2008-12-22T15:22:45Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Hey, gigi is really close to me! Time for an Upper Valley DopeFest?? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/71 "2008-12-22T17:28:12Z")
I hate these commercials. McDonalds takes black culture and uses it to make commercials to appeal to black people. I think if I was black I’d be offended, but mostly they’re just really terrible commercials. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/72 "2008-12-22T17:48:05Z")
I don’t understand the offense. Black people overwhelmingly outnumber white people in their love of McD’s and their love of R&B, in proportion if not in absolute. Why should McDonalds NOT advertise to them? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/73 "2008-12-22T18:03:33Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > I don’t understand the offense. Black people overwhelmingly outnumber white people in their love of McD’s Cite? ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/74 "2008-12-22T18:14:32Z")
McDonald’s loves ALL people…as long as they eat at McDonald’s. No matter what your color is your money all spends the same there. I’m failing to see the outrage. Not that I’d eat at a McDonald’s unless I was near to starving and there wasn’t anything else near… -XT ---
**Author:** ![Huerta88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/82dd89/32.png) [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/75 "2008-12-22T18:17:46Z")
Just wanted to point out that if a McD. ad targeting a particular demographic strikes you as offensive, there’s a non-trivial chance it was put together by a member of that demographic. McD.'s, like a lot of other big companies these days, not infrequently implements ‘vendor diversity’ policies and as part of this will try to engage minority-owned ad agencies, among other things. E.g., [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi\_m3190/is\_n6\_v32/ai\_20222483](http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3190/is_n6_v32/ai_20222483) By the way, I’d be kind of happy to be a target audience. ---
**Author:** ![Audrey\_Levins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/76 "2008-12-22T20:06:49Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > I don’t understand the offense. Black people overwhelmingly outnumber white people in their love of McD’s and their love of R&B, in proportion if not in absolute. Why should McDonalds NOT advertise to them? I’ve never said this before on the SDMB, after years of membership, but…CITE? How on earth do you know that “black people overwhelmingly outnumber white people in their love of McD’s?” I’m actually more amused than anything else by this statement. Is this a whoosh? Please say yes. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/77 "2008-12-22T20:12:09Z")
Define ‘white people’. 😉 Also, as a percentage of the population or simply by numbers? From my totally unbiased and mathematically accurate view point I’d say that foreigners are more fond of McDonald’s than either black OR white American’s. I mean…have you seen the LINES at some of the McDonald’s in other countries? And they can’t all be displaced American’s looking for a Big Mac and fries…can they…? -XT (btw…I’m joking here in case anyone is going to try and pull the old ‘CITE!’ on me for this) ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2008, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/78 "2008-12-22T23:47:28Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > Define ‘white people’. 😉 Also, as a percentage of the population or simply by numbers? > > From my totally unbiased and mathematically accurate view point I’d say that foreigners are more fond of McDonald’s than either black OR white American’s. I mean…have you seen the LINES at some of the McDonald’s in other countries? And they can’t all be displaced American’s looking for a Big Mac and fries…can they…? > > -XT > > (btw…I’m joking here in case anyone is going to try and pull the old ‘CITE!’ on me for this) Well, you know when Bush stole the first election, about 25 percent of the americans left the country as they had so bravely threatened. Four years later, the second 25 percent resolutely followed. Ever since, millions of Expat Mericans have been wandering the globe wondering when it would be safe to come home. While their supposedly self proclaimed sophisticated palates could theorectically handle the now freely available pickled goats anus, the cheap epicurean thrills of the homeland beckon to them like the half off signs at Walmart on Christmas Eve. So yes, it IS Mericans standing in line in all those furin places 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/79 "2008-12-25T12:28:19Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > Is that second link supposed to do something? The page title (a very bad word for black people, followed by “alarm”) indicates that it’s meant to be some sort of shock page with a sound file or something, the kind we’re not supposed to link to without warning. But I did click on it and all I see is a blank page with a “YTMND” (the hosting provider) logo. So either way I’d suggest that other posters not bother clicking the link. You have to have Quicktime installed to see it. Then it loads a tiled video clip that shows a police officer (I think – it’s pretty poor quality) freaking out when the aforementioned alarm goes off. ---
**Author:** ![Laudenum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Laudenum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laudenum)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2008, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424/80 "2008-12-25T13:39:48Z")
Ireland’s McDonalds ads are pretty cheesy too. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNikjjJDSpo) and the far worse: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/SPyv7f8bp5g/hqdefault.jpg "McDonald's Eurosaver Johnny Logan Ad 3") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPyv7f8bp5g) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/q6-uIuieZcM/hqdefault.jpg "McDonald's Eurosaver Johnny Logan Ad Number 2") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6-uIuieZcM) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/RaBIU6k60Ko/hqdefault.jpg "McDonald's Eurosaver Johnny Logan") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaBIU6k60Ko) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mcdonalds-hates-black-people/477424.md?page=5)