Jynx is racist?
White Cat
able to find the orginal article. You can find it at:
http://www.tbwt.com/views/specialrpt/special%20report-1_1-5-00.asp
How stupid is this woman? Jynx is racist stereotype because she has
"jet black skin, huge pink lips, gaping eyes, a straight blonde mane and
a full figure, complete with cleavage and wiggly hips." How many Black
people do you know with blonde hair? What do gaping eyes, a full
figure, cleavage, and 'wiggly hips' have to do with anything? This is
even dumber that the allegations against Jar Jar.
Besides, it's blatantly obvious that Jynx is really an offensive
stereotype of prostitutes. :>
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> I saw this news item at UPNetwork, and after doing some digging I was
> able to find the orginal article. You can find it at:
> http://www.tbwt.com/views/specialrpt/special%20report-1_1-5-00.asp
I forget to mention that the writer makes rather a racist statement
herself, with her references to the resurfacing "Japanese sense of
superiority."
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Hmm... I would not put it beyond a huge corporation to use rascist stereotypes.
However i've always had the impression that we don't see jynx's face. It's
shrouded in shadow.
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trying to drink Coca-Cola, but the fizz is tickling her mouth. There is a
same exact commercial with a white girl.
And just to let you know, I HATE THAT COMMERCIAL!
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>> Hmm... I would not put it beyond a huge corporation to use rascist
> stereotypes.
>> However i've always had the impression that we don't see jynx's face. It's
>> shrouded in shadow.
>> Hedge
>>
> No, I'd agree.
> I've never seen anything but White people on Coca Cola ads.
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> > I saw this news item at UPNetwork, and after doing some digging I was
> > able to find the orginal article. You can find it at:
> > http://www.tbwt.com/views/specialrpt/special%20report-1_1-5-00.asp
>
> I forget to mention that the writer makes rather a racist statement
> herself, with her references to the resurfacing "Japanese sense of
> superiority."
>
Japanese, than her obvious overlooking the fact that African-Americans
aren't by ANY possibility able to be blond without European contamination of
the blood, than the fact that she is a racist by nature (Anyone who
campaigns for a races rights is, Racist, no matter what they say)
It's the fact that tells people to stay "tooned"
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> Hmm... I would not put it beyond a huge corporation to use rascist
stereotypes.
> However i've always had the impression that we don't see jynx's face. It's
> shrouded in shadow.
> Hedge
>
No, I'd agree.
I've never seen anything but White people on Coca Cola ads.
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> What about that one commercial with the Black 20-something woman who is
> trying to drink Coca-Cola, but the fizz is tickling her mouth. There is a
> same exact commercial with a white girl.
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> And just to let you know, I HATE THAT COMMERCIAL!
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posting the full article here:
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Politically Incorrect Pokémon
1-5-00
By Carole B. Weatherford
I confess: I succumbed to Pokémon fever. I took my 10-year-old son to
"The Pokémon Movie" during opening weekend. I suffered through the bad
animation and mindless plot while he sat spellbound as the battles
advanced toward a saccharine moral. When I saw the movie, I already
understood the phenomenon, having bought Pokémon Red, Blue, Yellow and
Pinball. Manufactured by Japan's Nintendo Corp., these digital games
challenge players to collect and train 150 little pocket monsters that
gain power as they evolve. If my two children are any indication, the
game is incredibly fun and addictive.
The fun merely begins with the game, however. Pokémon trading cards
capitalize on the game's popularity. Despite my son's begging, I
initially resisted investing in Pokémon cards, having bought Pogs and
Beanie Babies when those fads were at their peak. So, without spending
a dime, my son assembled a 60-some-card collection using duplicates
donated by friends. I eventually relented and allowed him to buy a
starter set, theme deck and several booster packs of Pokemon cards at
prices ranging from $4 to $17.
Like I said, I have submitted to Pokémania. And I would have paid a
premium for the video game Pokémon Snap if only I could have found it on
store shelves or e-commerce sites during the holiday shopping season.
Unfortunately, Nintendo underestimated demand, and the most popular
Pokémon toys were snatched up around Thanksgiving. Committed to resume
my search for Pokémon Snap after the Christmas rush, I saw a character
on the Pokémon TV cartoon that not only stripped the phenomenon of its
innocence but stopped me cold.
The character Jynx, Pokémon #124, has decidedly human features:
jet-black skin, huge pink lips, gaping eyes, a straight blonde mane and
a full figure, complete with cleavage and wiggly hips. Put another way,
Jynx resembles an overweight drag queen incarnation of Little Black
Sambo, a racist stereotype from a children's book long ago purged from
libraries.
[Picture of Jynx]
While my 10- and 12-year olds do not find Jynx offensive, their parents
and grandparents do. We call a spade a spade. And we have seen enough
racist stereotypes to know one when we see it. There was room to debate
whether "Star Wars: Episode One's" Jar Jar Binks was West Indian, but
there is no question about this Pokémon character. Jynx clearly
denigrates African Americans, particularly black women. At the close of
the 20th century, how could Japanese computer animators unleash such a
culturally insensitive menace on the global marketplace?
In Asia the racist stereotypes popular before World War II apparently
die hard. In 1985 when Colgate-Palmolive bought Darkie Toothpaste from
Hong Kong's Hazel & Hawley Chemical Co., the new owner inherited not
only a leading brand but also a racist name and logo featuring a
grinning caricature in blackface and a top hat. Rival Procter & Gamble
leaked news of the offensive logo to the American market, sparking
protests by civil rights groups. Though Colgate eventually scrapped the
Al Jolson-inspired logo and changed the brandname to Darlie, the
Cantonese name-Haak Yahn Nga Gou-remains "Black Man Toothpaste."
Every few years, the Japanese sense of superiority seems to resurface.
For example, the Japanese fought to keep U.S. military bases in Okinawa
from relocating to the mainland. And about a decade ago, a high-ranking
Japanese official attributed Japan's low crime rate to the country's
lack of ethnic diversity, blaming African Americans for the high crime
rate in the U.S.
These are strange days. Sisters in Harlem toss long tresses-courtesy of
hair extensions shorn from women in Shanghai-to the beat of misogynistic
raps produced by Japanese media giant Sony.
So I am not surprised, though I am appalled, that a computer animator at
a Japanese corporation would conceive of Jynx and that corporate
executives would deem the character appropriate for multiracial markets.
Even Jynx's name-a variation on the term "jinx," which means a bearer of
bad luck-has negative connotations. In addition, the name Jynx suggests
a link with witch doctors and voodoo, practices rooted in African
religion but often ridiculed by Western culture.
Pokémon is unquestionably the year's hottest toy. Since Pokémon's
arrival in the U.S. in 1998, more than 7 million of the games have been
sold, representing more than half of all U.S. video game revenues.
Will African-American parents continue to cough up hard-earned dollars
for games and trading cards featuring a monstrously racist image? Will
Jynx deal Pokémon's last hand in the black community? Or will the
blonde-haired, black-faced, monster evolve into an ebony princess? Stay
"tooned."
Carole Boston Weatherford, a High Point, N.C. poet and children's book
author, wrote Sink or Swim: African-American Lifesavers of the Outer
Banks (Coastal Carolina Press, 1999).
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obviously nuts. She has a valid arguement, but I still don't think Jynx
is outrageously offensive. It doesn't look like any stereotype I'd
recognize, and I doubt many players of the game and viewers of the show
would recognize it, either.
It's not like a kid walking down the street would see a black woman and
think, "Gee, that lady looks like a Pokemon! I must ridicule her
mercilessly!" Just how many afro-americans die their hair blonde,
anyway? And how many of them wear red dresses and kiss people with
little or no provocation? Not anyone I"ve seen.
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