Branding Humans: Selling White Supremacy to America
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50 years after becoming one of the first AfrAmericans creating
advertising for the world's biggest brands, Lowell Thompson tackles
what he calls the biggest branding campaign of all, the branding of
the human race.
"In 1968, 3 months after the nationwide riots following the
assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I got my first job in a
big-time advertising agency, Foote, Cone & Belding. It was a time when
corporate America first opened its door to non-white folks. I walked
right in. I was 20 years old."
For the next 35 years, working for other agencies, Thompson created
ads and commercials for brands like Coca Cola,McDonald's, United
Airlines, Tasters Choice, Kemper Insurance, Allied Van Lines, Tide. Brewing Co., Budweiser, International Harvester, and more
But it was only after he became a writer/artist that it hit him
that what he'd learned in advertising could help solve America's
oldest, most seemingly intractable problem. "I suddenly saw that the
techniques and tactics ad agencies use to brand products and services
are similar to the ones 'Amerocrats' used to brand people 'White' or
'Black'...as well as 'Redskins', 'Wetbacks', 'Japs and so on" Thompson
says. "The idea that humans can be color-coded and divided into
separate, distinct 'races' - with 'whites' the best and blacks' the
worst - is one of the wrongest...and deadliest...in human history",
Thompson says. "It started when Europeans began the conquest of the
Americas."
"Branding Humans" shows how and why this idea took such deep roots
here. Call it Thompson's Theory of Human Branding, (TTHB).
"The rise of Trumpism and white nationalism is the supremacists last gasp/grasp for
'brand dominance'. It's time to build a newer, truer, hipper, full-color brand for America now...to finally reject the centuries-old pseudo-science of "race". "It's time for U.S. to embrace the Whole Human Spectrum...and show the world its beauty and power."
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Branding Humans - Lowell D. Thompson
about……
BRANDING
Unlike brand, the word branding
has many definitons, variations and permutations. Its defintion seems to depend on the particular website or book you consult. Why? Because it’s become a favorite buzz word for every advertising/marketing agency, self-help lifestyle consultant and all-purpose guru on the planet trying to lure clients. But none of those definitions relate to the sense I use the term in Branding Humans. So here’s mine:.
Branding is the art of naming, claiming, blaming and shaming.
The images and ideas attributed to different races
(the idea of race itself) is not the result of human nature
as we’ve been taught. They are the product
of 350 years of social engineering and mass thought control. Allthough some things have changed as a result of the efforts of civil rights and social activists ove the past 50 years, the legacy of over 300 years of branding
are still largely intact. To make things perfectly clear
I’ve created a brand page
for each race
as promoted by the Branders - the landowners in America.
THE TOP U.S. RACE BRANDS.
Marketers believe our minds only have room for a few brands (Share of Mind) in any product category - Coke or Pepsi, Apple or Microsoft. Branders in America divided humans into black
or white
. All other brands are gradations of these extremes.
And just as American brands are built on the incessent, repetition of brand messages, the racist ideas we live with today (whether we acknowledge them or not) were built upon 400 almost years of messages and practices reinforcing the orginal race brands. Since they were never acknowledged, let alone corrected, we still live with them.
Originally, my TTHB was just an adman’s unscientific hunch about how our country got itself into the ever-expanding…er…doo-doo it’s in. But a few folks who read my draft of the introduction took it seriously and demanded a more formal explanatiion.. The more I thought about it and challenged my original hypothesis
, the more I think it stands the test of scrutiny. So here it is. (Of course, like all theories, I welcome others to challenge it, refine it, and even totally disprove it - although I doubt anyone can.
•Highest level of humanity
•Highly Intelligent
•Hard working
•Knowledgeable, Sophisticated
•Rational, Logical
•Highly Civilized
•Moral
•Courageous
•Handsome, Beautiful
•Democratic, Egalitarian
•Innocent/law-abiding
•Self reliant
•Sub-Human
•Stupid
•Lazy
•Ignorant, Unsophisticated
•Irrational, Emotional
•Uncivilized
•Immoral
•Cowardly
•Ugly
•Authoritarian
•Thug/Criminal
•Dependent
THOMPSON’S THEORY OF HUMAN BRANDING
The first Anglo-American land owners had to build an economy - and control a population - without Britain’s system of church and king.
So, without a national religion or an allpowerful monarchy, they mastered branding
, which I define as the art of naming, claiming, blaming and shaming
Their first success was branding humans into white
and black
races
- with themselves at the top of the whites
. The blacks
were put at the bottom and branded sub-human beasts to justify their