In Ghetto Delta Airlines, race is portrayed primarily through language, as the narrator uses slang, very improper English, and profanity throughout the video (i.e. “we be flying all over this bitch…” “then you be back at yo crib, we dun already flew up in there”). Also, blacks are portrayed as overweight and arguably inferior, since the narrator is white and holds all the power (he and his airlines can fly blacks anywhere), while not a single black person speaks at all during the film.
In Everest College Advertisement race is portrayed in both similar and different ways. Like the Delta video, the Everest College advertisement speaks directly to the audience though use of the second person--“you.” However, while the Delta video is comical and the narrator appears to be addressing a crowd, the Everest College Advertisement is serious and personal. Significantly, the narrator in the Everest advertisement is black, unlike in the Delta video. Both videos give blacks negative connotations, but the Everest advertisement gives a more descriptive illustration of the black race and is arguably more offensive, as the speaker claims that blacks just sit on the couch, watch T.V., spend time on the phone, procrastinate and let life pass them by. The speaker challenges and persuades blacks to defy this stereotype, which is an element ignored in the Delta video.
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