{"id":3136,"date":"2007-01-31T16:22:42","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T23:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/31\/honda-pilot-troll-commercial-and-american-indian-mascots\/"},"modified":"2007-01-31T16:22:42","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T23:22:42","slug":"honda-pilot-troll-commercial-and-american-indian-mascots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3136","title":{"rendered":"Honda Pilot Troll Commercial and American Indian Mascots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While we are on the subject of minstrel shows and blackface, I thought it would be appropriate to discuss how widely accepted &#8220;redface&#8221; is in American culture.\u00a0 From the moment I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0O51q8akz3A\">this Honda Pilot commercial<\/a>, I was struck by how similar the troll is to American Indian caricatures.\u00a0 In fact, I was watching the commercial when my partner came in and asked, &#8220;Is that supposed to be an Indian?&#8221;\u00a0 I said, no, but that&#8217;s what really bothers me about the commercial.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Below\u00a0is a picture of the Honda pilot troll commercial.\u00a0 Now I&#8217;m not passing judgement on this commercial by saying it is racist.\u00a0 Instead, I think it is useful to compare the troll to several American Indian mascots.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the Honda Pilot Troll&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image378\" style=\"height: 170px\" height=\"170\" alt=\"honda-pilot-commercial.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rachelstavern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/honda-pilot-commercial.jpg\" width=\"218\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an &#8220;Indian Chief&#8221; mascot costume that you can order from anytimecostumes.com<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image379\" style=\"width: 217px; height: 259px\" height=\"259\" alt=\"mascot-costume-for-order.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rachelstavern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/mascot-costume-for-order.jpg\" width=\"217\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another costume, which is advertised in the &#8220;Animals and Mascots&#8221; section<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image382\" style=\"width: 95px; height: 163px\" height=\"163\" alt=\"indian-costume-_2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rachelstavern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/indian-costume-_2.jpg\" width=\"95\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are several random caricatures I found on the internet including the infamous Cleveland Indians &#8220;Chief Wahoo&#8221; mascot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image383\" style=\"width: 114px; height: 174px\" height=\"174\" alt=\"indian-redface.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rachelstavern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/indian-redface.gif\" width=\"114\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image384\" style=\"width: 162px; height: 199px\" height=\"199\" alt=\"indianredface.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rachelstavern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/indianredface.gif\" width=\"162\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image385\" style=\"height: 174px\" height=\"174\" alt=\"indian-mascot-chief-wahoo.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rachelstavern.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/indian-mascot-chief-wahoo.jpg\" width=\"153\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we are on the subject of minstrel shows and blackface, I thought it would be appropriate to discuss how widely accepted &#8220;redface&#8221; is in American culture.\u00a0 From the moment I saw this Honda Pilot commercial, I was struck by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3136\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-popular-and-unpopular-culture","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}