The CLIO Awards have taken cultural cluelessness to award-winning levels. Anyone who can figure out this concept deserves to steal a trophy. To present Apartheid for an exclusive awards show catering to a segregated and arguably racist industry is nothing short of asinine—and patently offensive to boot.
Unfortunately there's no one left in the American ad industry to care.
ReplyDeleteThe all-white jury for the 2015 Creative Bowl is representative of the all-white industry.
http://creativebowl.clioawards.com/
The only people of color allowed in US advertising are actors in the ads, or models in the ads, or foreigners of color educated at elite schools. US minorities, no.