RACIST OR ADORABLE?: Hip Hop Black Face Cupcakes

[cooconuts]

Food blog Eater brings us the latest in a slew of racist baked good controversies.
Purveyor of delicious foods to eat while lonely Duncan Hines made a minute and a half long ad featuring 7 newly chocolate glazed cupcakes beatboxing and autotuning themselves with tiny little eyes and cute little mouths.

And because these cupcakes share the most

Comments

[popehippo]

Doesn't sound very hip-hop to me, more like some form of techno? idk, but the faces are kinda heinous, looks way too close to the Golliwog mentioned above.

[cyranothe2nd]

I don't think it's racist. It's weird and a bit annoying though.

[dreadfulpenny81]

This.

[kitschaster]

Why couldn't they use white icing? Or pink icing? Huh? HUH?!

[popehippo]

Or even another form of music. They could have been singing, idk, classical opera or something.

[kitschaster]

Because the kids on the block totally can't relate to the "fat ladies" singing. It's gotta be funky fresh, yo'.

[theartistprince]

screamy faces with little mohawks made of jube-jubes = punk rock cupcake

or draw a little guy in a flannel jacket and it's grunge.

[outburst]

I just want to know:

How do you not notice that your cupcakes are making noises?

For me, that's a little unnerving. The person with the icing isn't trying to make them stop or dance along or anything. It's just... weird.

[urplesquirrel]

..........

It would be adorable if they had some faces with white/pink/yellow/etc. icing as well. The black icing is just... Unfortunate Implications, much?

[mindrtist]

It's chocolate. Chocolate is brown.