Baltimoreskin talking about Divine got me thinking about this guy Kevin, who used to be friends with my ex. Funny dude, very gay very offensive. He will wear blackface, talk like a sister and walk the bad parts of Baltimore with zero care. He did a movie "sparkle johnson" and I found this commercial he did for a furniture company down in New Orleans.
edit -- he babysat my kid a few times ...
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furniture commercials
07.08.2014
05:00 pm
Topics:
Advertising
Idiocracy
Race
U.S.A.!!!
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Sparkle Johnson
I have no words—these commercials for New Orleans’ Hotel Furniture Liquidators star the Maryland performer Kevin Scott’s staggeringly offensive blackface-and-drag character “Sparkle Johnson.” (ZERO relation to the baffling-for-different-reasons HGTV dandy Josh “Sparkle” Johnson.) Why they thought racism, misogyny and classism would be a good way to sell used hotel furniture is anyone’s guess (my guess: because the South), but beyond the brashly anti-PC nature of the character, this stuff is just phenomenally fucked up.
https://dangerousminds.net/comments/...re_commercials
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https://youtu.be/Y1wLVApuVic
^^ actual commercial