#300578 - 04/10/1708:33 AMSNL makes fun of Pepsi's #Resistance commercial
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Pepsi released its astonishingly tone-deaf protest-themed ad earlier this week where Kendal Jenner stops a photo-shoot she's in to join a protest and when met with a line of stern-faced cops, the suggestion that the key to ending police brutality is to present the cops with a can of Pepsi.
#300610 - 04/11/1706:30 PMRe: SNL makes fun of Pepsi's #Resistance commercial
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Production company ThirtyRev redid the Pepsi ad with the same music, but instead of fake protestors carrying signs that said things like “Love,” they showed actual footage of the Dakota Access Pipeline protestors at Standing Rock. The video first surfaced on Mashable.
Some of it can be difficult to watch. At times, police officers are shown using rubber bullets and tear gas on protesters. At the end of the video, Pepsi’s logo appears and underneath it, it says “Water Is Life.”
#300612 - 04/11/1706:47 PMRe: SNL makes fun of Pepsi's #Resistance commercial
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Originally Posted By: Lyrics to 'Lion' by Skip Marley
Some said 'never' but the never done come Yeah, and took our trust Hate's been winning, but the lovers ain't done Yeah, not on my watch
Yeah, if ya took all my rights away Yeah, if ya tellin' me how to pray Yeah, if ya won't let us demonstrate Yeah, wrong Yeah, if ya thinking I don't belong Yeah, if ya hiding behind a gun Yeah, if ya hoping we're gonna run Wrong
We are the lions, we are the chosen We gonna shine out the dark We are the movement, this generation You better know who we are, who we are
Lyrics like the ones used in the Pepsi and subsequent ThirtyRev video frighten old white CONservatives. They know America is changing and they're scared to death.
Scared they'll be treated the very same way they treated this generation's parents, grandparents, and great grandparents.
Lesson: Treat others how you wanted to be treated.
#300687 - 04/14/1706:45 PMRe: SNL makes fun of Pepsi's #Resistance commercial
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I didn't think it was possible for a beverage company to be more tone deaf than Pepsi but Budweiser may have come pretty close.
"COLORS" as done by WHITE PEOPLE, with one token black in the background. The spot aired during WGN's show "Underground" which featured a speech by Harriet Tubman.
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#300689 - 04/14/1707:44 PMRe: SNL makes fun of Pepsi's #Resistance commercial
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I think they meant to title it "Coloreds".
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#300691 - 04/14/1708:29 PMRe: SNL makes fun of Pepsi's #Resistance commercial
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The sound for the ThirtyRev video has been muted. ThirtyRev thinks that Skip Marley's label complained to YouTube and not Skip Marley himself given that the ThrityRev video is about actual protesters.
#300696 - 04/15/1704:44 AMRe: SNL makes fun of Pepsi's #Resistance commercial
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"Colors" (1984) Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, Maria Conchita Alonso, Don Cheadle.
An experienced cop and his rookie partner patrol the streets of East Los Angeles while trying to keep the gang violence under control. Director: Dennis Hopper
Theme song by Ice-T
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