Check out this billboard located on the 110 freeway:
"CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH! Let Your New Life Begin! 1-800-GET-THIN"
I can't promise the Lap Band will shrink your stomach, but I feel like its advertising has successfully shrunk my brain. More than offensive, the billboard is stupid. Who is this supposed to appeal to? African Americans who are moved by the fact that Lap Band is "honoring" their ancestors? Guilty white people who consider themselves progressive and don't know how else to commemorate the month?
Now that it's March, shouldn't we be acknowledging Women's History Month instead? (They weren't called great figures in women's history for nothing, ladies.) I don't expect Lap Band to mention the fact that it's also National Nutrition Month.
Next year's billboard: "Her name wasn't Harriet Tubbyman."
(Photo credit: Bite Me TV)
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