Question 3

3. Both Ghetto Delta Airlines and the Everest College advertisement mock stereotypical blackness and make African Americans seem lazy, and uneducated. In the Ghetto Delta Airlines video the narrator solely refers to stereotypical “black” phrases, and the video shows several examples of items associated with blacks (spliff, 40 oz. beer in brown bag, someone wearing sunglasses inside, etc.). In the Everest College advertisement it shows a black male in a dark parking lot dressed relatively “thuggish” preaching and screaming to a camera about education, however the way he speaks makes him seem uneducated. However, the videos are also different. Ghetto Delta Airlines is deliberately mocking the stereotypical blackness, while the Everest College commercial is not blatantly mocking the black community.