When one of our twitter friends started tweeting about McDonald's 365Black.com, I thought it was a joke. My friends and I talk all the time about McDonald's less than subtle "urban" marketing plan, but I never thought they'd seek to go after Black dollars and waist lines full throttle over the Internets. My bad for underestimating the power of three beef patties and special sauce dangling from African Baobab Trees (the official symbol of Black pride if you ask McDonald's).
This shouldn't come as a suprise to anyone, but a new study says that people are eating more Dollar Menu food in this bad economy, and that dollar menu food is the devil:
Jack in the Box's Junior Bacon Cheeseburger was ranked "the most unhealthful" value item available among the offerings of national fast-food chains, according to an analysis by dietitians with the nonprofit Cancer Project in Washington that is scheduled to be released today. ...The item contains 23 grams of fat, 860 milligrams of sodium, and bacon, a processed meat that Haynes said was associated with increased colorectal cancer… Read More
Mozilla thinks so. Today the folks who brought us FireFox rolled out BlackBird, a web browser targeted toward African Americans. Developed by black-owned… Read More
I knew having a Black family in office would result in more exposure for the community, but if this is what was meant by assimilation, you can keep it.
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