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The number 40 is racist now.

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I don't know about racist, but there certainly is a target market.  

Is this equivalent to those candy cigars and cigarettes? Is the causality and/or correlation? 

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“We know that children emulate adults and what they see to be cool,” Gilliam said. “So you have them going to the store, which just happens to be next to a liquor store where you might see people hanging out drinking 40s, so you want to emulate that and you can do it with a 40 water. Great, they’re getting nourished as far as the water. But their behavior is emulating that of these people that are consuming alcohol. And it’s like a precursor.”

Some troof to this.  Remember candy cigs? 
Wiffleball did a good vid back in 2006 about them

 

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I briefly scanned the article, but I did see mention of how 40s were glamorized by rap music. How is that racist, then, if the black community was glamoriziing it?  Or was it due to Vanilla Ice and Snow behind it all? 

 

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22 minutes ago, DonS said:

I briefly scanned the article, but I did see mention of how 40s were glamorized by rap music. How is that racist, then, if the black community was glamoriziing it?  Or was it due to Vanilla Ice and Snow behind it all? 

 

40s, Hennessy, Gin, Cristal, Remy Martin, etc..etc..
Big focking deal
Country music used to glamorize Jack Daniels all the time with various artists.
Hell, Johnny Paycheck glamorized Coors beer in one of my favorite songs.
Wanna hear it? Yea...you do :banana:

 

Well, I was sittin' in this beer joint down in Houston, Texas
Was drinkin' Colorado Cool-Aid and talkin' to some Mexicans
An' we was, what's that you say?
What's Colorado Cool-Aid?

Well, it's a can of Coors brewed from a mountain stream
It'll set you head on fire an' make your kidneys scream
Oh, it sure is fine
Yeah, we was havin' ourselves one of them real good times

But you know every beer joint that you've ever been in
Some big, mean drunk who just ain't got no friend
Sure enough, he wants to fight
Yeah, he's gonna whip everything in sight

Well, he took him a big cold swallow of beer
And he walked over and spit in my Mexican friends ear
And sure enough that made my buddy real mad
That's somethin' like he ain't never had

Well, Sir, he pulled out a big, long switch blade knife
Quick as a whistle he began to slice
That big mean drunk stood back, his face full of tears
Lookin' down at the floor, an' one of his ears

Ha, he cut that thing off even with the sideburns
You might say the little Mexican fella, he just didn't give a darn
But he was a gentleman about it
An' bent over and with a half way grin
Picked it up and handed it back to him

He said, "Now big man, you get the urge to spit a little beer
"Just open up your hand there and spit it in your own ear
Won't be no trouble that way", that's what I heard him say

And I said, "Barmaid, set us up a round of that Colorado Cool-Aid
While you're up there, bring this big fella here, a box of Bandaids"

Now let me tell you if you're ever ridin' down in south of Texas
And decide to stop an' drink some Colorado Cool-Aid
An' maybe talk to some Mexicans
An' you get the urge to get a little tough
Better make damn sure you got your knife proof ear-muff

Hey, ain't that right, big man? I said ain't that right big man?
Ah, hell he can't hear, not on this side anyway, he ain't got no ear

Hey barmaid, bring us all a big, tall glass of that Colorado Cool-Aid
How about it?
How you doin', big man? Still got your ear there in your hand?

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10 hours ago, DonS said:

I briefly scanned the article, but I did see mention of how 40s were glamorized by rap music. How is that racist, then, if the black community was glamoriziing it?  Or was it due to Vanilla Ice and Snow behind it all? 

 

Black people do it = celebrating their heritage

White people do it = exploitation

You can really use this in any scenario about and godblessed thing under the sun.

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