Paramount Admits GHOST IN THE SHELL Tanked Due To Whitewashing

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People of Color standing together makes a difference. 

For three years, Asians and other people of color wrote and wrote and wrote articles and blog posts protesting the latest white washing of a POC-story-made-movie, GHOST IN THE SHELL Voice sound off about the hurt and disappointment over e-race-sure. made a difference...Again. 

I'm a movie buff and I didn't even consider going to see it. Apparently a lot of other people felt the same way. 

File this under protest works.

Paramount even had to admit it was the white washing controversy that did the movie in....and did the movie in big time. 

 

“Ghost in the Shell” was expected to be a box office hit, considering the fact that it’s based on Masamune Shirow’s popular Japanese manga series of the same name and stars A-lister Scarlett Johansson. However, the big-budget film completely bombed on its opening weekend.

The film, which cost about US$110 million to make, only earned a measly $19 million in North American box offices over the weekend, Variety reports.

And what’s even more shocking is that the film was beat out by the debut of “The Boss Baby,” an animated feature about a talking infant, and “Beauty and the Beast,” which was first released three weeks ago. The films earned US$49 million and US$48 million, respectively.

So what went wrong? According to Paramount’s domestic distribution chief Kyle Davies, it had to do with the film’s casting controversy. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/04/03/ghost-in-the-shell-box-office_n_15782680.html

I hope everybody involved lost WHOLE BUNCHES-A MONEY. I hope the white GHOST IN THE SHELL crew are calling up the WHITE GODS OF EGYPT white boys to commiserate. 
Laughing in black girl petty over here. 

Laughing loud.  

BWAAAAAAA ha ha ha haaaaaaa!

THIS WEEK IN WHITE MEN: THE ADVERTISERS

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Two companies revealed that there's nothing but white men or white-men-wanna-be-s in upper management at their companies, as well as the companies they hire to do their advertising. 

That's the only excuse I can think of for what happened at Nivea and Pepsi this week.

1. Nivea had pull an ad after massive protest

This company produced an ad called "Whiteness Is Purity" Rumor has it that one of the main markets they were using this in was in the Middle East somewhere. 

Wherever Nivea planned to have this ad playing most often...um....uh???? WTH. 

I mean...how freaking cut off and white and into yourself do you have to be not see the KKK-ers and the Bannon-loving white nationalists are going to be the ONLY ones loving this ad?

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2. Pepsi had to pull an ad after massive protest


The story about Pepsi is slightly more complicated than the Nivea story...on the surface. 

Clearly, Pepsi wanted to be all edgy and now. So somebody had the bright idea to center an ad on social protest. However, Pepsi also wanted to be non-committal. (Yeah. These two things make sense together) So they made this ad where the protests sign were seriously generic in the "Can't We All Just Get Along" ala Rodney King manner. 

Then this advertisement went one step further: They belittled every protest ever -- especially Black Lives Matter, in my mind-- by having the actress give a Pepsi to a cop which made everything ALL better. 

However, mistake number one in my black feminist mind was Pepsi using one of Kardashian/Jenner-Surgery-Sisters as the actor from the jump. You know surgeries I'm talking about, right? The surgeries gotten so as to acquire the black female features that sooo many white folk --and a certain strain of brain-dead-black men-- adore only when they are on non-black women? 

Talk about adding insult to injury.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/business/kendall-jenner-pepsi-ad.html?_r=0

CONCLUSION 1: Protest Works

CONCLUSION 2:  Daaaayum. Ya'll people of color won't let white folks e-race nuthin no more. Took all that money out of white folks hands by refusing to go see GHOST IN THE SHELL. Now the white boys at Nivea and the white boys at Pepsi, both, lost a lot of money on an ad they can't use too.

Shame on ya'll


Laughing in black girl petty

Laughin' LOUD

BWAAAAAAA ha ha ha. 

FILE THIS UNDER BLACK PROTEST WORK: SCHOLASTIC PULLS HAPPY SLAVE BOOK

Scholastic Pulls A Birthday Cake for George Washington Amid Slavery Backlash

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http://time.com/4184444/scholastic-birthday-cake-george-washington-slavery/



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ORIGINAL STORY

SCHOLASTIC'S CONTRIBUTION TO INSTITUTIONALIZED RACISM PUBLISHED JUST IN TIME FOR MLK DAY
http://thankherforsurviving.blogspot.com/2016/01/scholastics-contribution-to.html