is never one to shy away from skewering a celebrity or company if they deserve it.That includes the tone-deaf ad that Pepsi aired, featuring Kendall Jenner, only to pull it a few days later in response to online backlash.He was born in Nevada, Iowa on September 9, 1930, the son of Ray and Ruth Patten Taylor.He was raised in Iowa and went to the Iowa School for the Deaf.He explains the premise again to his brother-in-law, and after a few seconds of unheard criticism, he tries to defend his commercial, mumbling defenses, before realizing that they’re only using different cultures to sell soda. Our plucky director asks Doug to put a black neighbor on the phone. He starts out explaining that the whole thing is an homage to the Black Lives Matter movement, but gets stopped right in his tracks. One Twitter user wrote, “that pepsi ad made me want to buy a coke.” Another pointed out that “the worst thing about that Pepsi ad, beyond the blatant disrespect and disregard, is the amount of people who greenlit that advertisement.” Pepsi attempted to defend the ad, telling that the ad was meant to showcase “Pepsi’s brand rallying cry to ‘Live For Now,’ in an exploration of what that truly means to live life unbounded, unfiltered, and uninhibited.” However, in response to the criticism, Pepsi pulled the ad on Wednesday in response to the unabashed criticism.Jerry Ray Taylor, 82, passed away peacefully on Monday, June 10, 2013.Everybody is marching and they get to these police officers and you think it’s going to go bad because there’s kind of a standoff. She walks up to one of the police officers and hands him a Pepsi. The smile on his face goes away bit by bit until there’s just a questioning look on his face. ” As the director looks around and realizes this has gone a bit too far, he asks the neighbor, “What would you do if you were in my situation?

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