Feed a Child South Africa | Problematic Advert

In the name of charity is it ever alright to depict a black child as a dog belonging to a white owner who is fed scraps off food to throughout the course of the day? Even if the message is to state that many children eat worst than dogs. This is what This is Africa is asking.  Take a look at the advert by Feed a Child South Africa. It just screams wrong, wrong, wrong. If this is how white South Africans see the indigenous Black populations poor children, what do they think of the rest? The advert is in one of the most poor tastes I have seen in a long while. I just wonder if poor white children are depicted in this way in South Africa. It is just bad really. The could have done this ad by showing a well fed dog and a child with an empty bowl at a dinner table to sat on a porch. If this is the box they are in, this charity needs to think outside of it.

Read the article on This is Africa here.

Loving the Natural Hair in Hellmann's Advert

Saw this Hellmann's Mayo advert online and now on TV. What I love about it is that on UK TV there is an array of natural textured African-Caribbean hairstyles on display and even being styled in a salon. Well done to the casting team.

Please note that I am not affiliated with Hellmann's in anyway!

X Factor adverts were groovy

Well what can I say. X Factor was okay last night the only act that was truly amazing was Mary Byrne. TreyC was good too. Though if she does not do well on this show she can become the new poster lady for a taught bumper. I can just imagine her being snapped on the beach and people in awe of her derriere the way they are with Serena. Thankfully she has an absolute good voice.

Cher did what I expected she threw in some Lady Sovereign ala N Dubz vibes to a song that did not need it. In fact she was awful and did not prove anything. Katie was better than Cher but the gaga like get up was badly done.

Anyway the highlight for me from Xfactor was the commercials. I actually enjoyed watching them. The best had to be the Yeo Valley farm milk advert. Now I need to go and find out what a massey is. The rapping in this advert was on point and Cher could learn a thing or two from it. I also liked the Ikea Kitchen advert which was so groovy. Now if the judges could choose a decent song for their acts I might think the same of them too.

One more thing why have wildcards, than do a double eviction on the 1st show. It makes no sense. The twist is stupid and people worked that out the day Gamu got the boot.