A black Sanders? Colonel that is -

[packman]

"Today David Alan Grier announced via Twitter that his next gig will involve peddling chicken as Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Colonel Sanders for the company's forthcoming ad campaign -- making him the first African-American to command the role."

So--- a few days ago the storm raged about white people portraying various other races in movies, thus denying minorities the opportunity to be in films.

Today KFC announces a black man is going to represent the whitest-of-white man, the beloved Colonel Sanders, in some future ads. Seems lately KFC is running the figure of Sanders using various actors - Norm McDonald among them.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kfc-makes-history-colonel-sanders_us_56d890b5e4b0000de403b3c3

[Proud Public Servant]

1. Can he wear the uniform

of the 116th Regiment Infantry? African-American Union troops organized in Kentucky near teh end of the Civil War; I might actually eat at KFC if they did that...

[951-Riverside]

2. KFC has always loved to push the line when it comes to racist stereotypes against black people

but hey the company is ran by David C. Novak a white right-wing southern evangelical

[TeamPooka]

3. This whole ad campaign is offensive. Sanders was a real man. Would Disney have a guy pretending to

be Walt or Apple have a spokesman pretending to be Steve Jobs?
No.
The cartoon of the Sanders was bad enough but to rotate a bunch of actors playing him is just offensive to his heirs and many others.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. David Alan Grier is one of my favorite people.

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