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Twenty years ago [1997-04-21], one of the most memorable ads of all time was launched, when Rachael Leigh Cook and her frying pan starting smashing up eggs in her infamous "This is Your Brain on Drugs" ad.
Today, Rachael Leigh Cook, her frying pan, and eggs are back but this time in a new ad that slams the drug war and its racist enforcement.
The new video, made by Green Point Creative, opens with Cook and her frying pan. She holds up a white egg and explains that it represents one of the millions of Americans who uses drugs but never gets arrested. She then picks up a brown egg and says, "This American is several times more likely to be charged with a drug crime." [Screenshot]
The animated ad, narrated by Cook, then shows what happens to the brown egg that is arrested and funneled through the criminal justice system. The ad highlights a range of harmful collateral consequences that result from drug arrest, including the loss of student financial aid, hindered job prospects and broken up families. The add[sic] contrasts the white egg's family that was never arrested, despite also using drugs.
The ad ends with Cook looking into the camera, holding her pan and [...] a smashed egg, and saying, "The war on drugs is ruining peoples' lives. It fuels mass incarceration, it targets people of color in greater numbers than their white counter parts. It cripples communities, it costs billions, and it doesn't work. Any questions?"
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 24 2017, @08:04PM
only complete slaves would allow the government to tell them what medicines they can choose to use. think "drugs" are different? don't be such a fucking monkey. now they're even telling mothers with deathly sick kids that they have to poison them with chemo or go to jail. you voted for and fund these scum, you fucking idiots and now they are shooting your kids up with insta-autism and poisoning them in their food and water. if you watch live pd (it's pretty hard) you will see these stupid traitors fucking with people all over the country for bullshit. treating them like slaves digging through their shit and wasting their time. even the obvious jackasses are largely that way because of the environment they grew up in which is caused by the drug war. these days most of these pigs know the war on drugs is bullshit so they are morally corrupted so they have nothing but their job to lose. if we would quit allowing the legislature to use them as slave catchers and retrain their dumb asses, then maybe they could go after real criminals. if they would actually uphold their oaths to the constitution and focus on fraud, violent and property crime, then eventually even blacks would support them, even when they had to shoot some sherm head kick door robber. BTW, white people who say "people of color" are the stupidest of fucks. if i catch you saying that somewhere where i can get away with kicking your ass, that's what i'm going to do.