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VW pulls car ad after outcry, apologizes for racist overtone
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BERLIN – Germany’s Volkswagen has pulled a social media ad for a new car and apologized after an outcry over its racist overtones.
The ten-second spot posted on Instagram and Twitter shows a massive white hand pushing a black man away from beside a new yellow Volkswagen Golf parked on the street, then moving him to an open doorway and flicking him inside a French cafe.
Commentators on social media also noted that as the German-language slogan “Der Neue Golf” - “The New Golf” - fades into view, the jumble of letters can be read as a racial slur for a brief moment.
And the cafe's name is Petit Colon, which in French literally means the “Little Colonist.” Volkswagen told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the video had been pulled and that
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