Our Country 'Tis of Thee ; Silverado Ads Show American Divisions.
Columbia Daily Tribune › October 27, 2006
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DETROIT - TV ads for the 2007 Chevrolet Silverado that show vivid images of Martin Luther King Jr., the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are having a polarizing effect among consumers.
George Holmes, a black man who heads the New York-based civil rights group Congress for Racial Equality, said: "If they'd marched with us when we got fire hoses turned on us, then maybe they'd deserve to use those images."See the full content of this document
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Our Country 'Tis of Thee ; Silverado Ads Show American Divisions.
Anthony Johnson, a Troy, Mich., resident who is also black, had the opposite reaction. "I was like, `Wow!' I felt some...
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