Wow a lot of finger pointing and name calling directed at WaMu here. WaMu was allowed to fail, all the banks had major sub-prime exposure, but who got helped out? I think the major banks and their buddies at the Fed and in the government, enacted their revenge in 2008, while other banks got bailed out, the people-friendly, largely fee-free bank takes the blame, and is not saved from Bankruptcy. Looks like they pissed off that banker's pen.
I used to work for WAMU, loved working for them, great company. I miss WAMU. I now work for *another* bank and I can tell you, big difference. Wish WAMU was still around!
Easily the most obvious example of racist advertising. A group of stodgy white bankers corralled together to represent the 'old school way of banking' and the smart ass young black guy coming off as the new standard. If this was all reversed, there would have been a shitstorm of controversy.
Only Americans would find this TVC racist. I'm an Australian and I love this commercial, it was used as a case study by my advertising agency and not one person made a racist reference. It makes fun of the STEREOTYPE of BANKERS, not white people. Using the african american as the staff member of Washington Mutual, shows that they are DIFFERENT. That is all. Stop trying to make this brilliant piece of advertising into something that it is not.
@infokill To take it further, I think people miss that they used the "African American" because...HE WAS ALREADY THE BANK'S SPOKESPERSON. The ad agency picked him before this ad ever aired. He's also the grapes in Fruit of the Loom ads and has been on "The Office". His name's Wayne Wilderson. Funny guy.
Obviously, WaMu's brilliant ideas were not able to save them. Most likely it was those ideas and their pandering to the perpetually stupid that caused them to fail
"Wamu", having helped crash the world economic system with its subprime loans to unqualified minorities, is now thankfully history, but the lib media is still packed with racist anti-white male defamation. The issue is, how long are white men (NORMAL men - not white uncle toms) going to put up with this shit??
This commercial obviously played into the dark fantasies of certain members of minority groups. This is not unusual however. Because more blacks are entering the middle class but still remain part of the protected class, while advertisers continue to use explicit or implicit violence to sell products, a formula has been concocted to appeal to this demographic: white males will be the subject of humiliation, intimidation, and all sorts of violence at the hands of an authoritative black figure.
@JesusSaviorTeaParty The people that truly profited from the financial crisis are Ivy League educated bankers who made millions. They are living the good life in Manhattan, Palm Beach and other exclusive gated community where you and I would not be allowed in. "Blue Blooded only".
So you can spend the rest of your time blaming the black and other minorities for the crisis, while the people that are truly responsible for it are playing golf and laughing at us.
@JesusSaviorTeaParty Hehehe, well I'm not saying you're lying, but do you have any facts and figures? george w. shithole went into a secret meeting w/ White House members and other people, excluding congress from the anything and decided to do this bailout shit that screwed over America. That particular fact was on a news cast that I saw, and most likely on the web. So there, that's what I'm looking for. Otherwise the banks screwed up and the gov't is wiping their asses at taxpayers' expense.
@JesusSaviorTeaParty Hmm, never heard of that, I'm not under the impression however that you can force a bank to give out loans. Besides any economist, anybody that was into real estate during that time saw all that coming, anybody at anytime could've said something about that or tried to cover hiney and skip out before the crash. Real easy. Once again I think both screwed up everything and it's up to regular working class people to clean the up bullshit not pay for it.
@JesusSaviorTeaParty You're saying the gov't forced the banks to hand out ninja loans and do the whole thing with the securities to create the bubble so it would crash? Seems to me that it wasn't the case, but the main thing is that both of them screwed everything up.
So glad Wamu went belly up. Those racist ads that utilize the older white bankers as a representation of what they think is outmoded really pissed me off. And don't get me started on that smart ass black guy with the condescending tone and smug smirk.
This is the most blatantly anti-white racist commercial I've ever seen! Just imagine if the roles were reversed. It's not even funny. I wasn't surprised when WaMu went broke.
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Don't be stupid. The VAST majority of banking execs ARE old white guys. This is a slam against rich f**ks who don't care about anything but getting richer, at other people's expense. It would work the same way if the spokesperson was white.
The hip Black WaMu guy tortures and humiliates old White bankers who wanted to do banking the old way.....
Like not making $400,000 mortgage loans to minorities and illegal aliens who had bad credit scores or insisting on down payments, proof the home buyers had stable jobs.
Yep, WaMu loaned $ billions in sub prime mortgages to bad risk minorities in California, Vegas - now the loans went south, WaMu is history, the US economy is tanked. Thanks.
@organizedactivist It's a funny ad. The irony of them tanking is funny too. The irony of your comment might be my favorite though, where you call the ad "racist" and then say giving mortgage loans to "minorities" is a bad thing! Well played, ironic commenter!
To the people blaming slavery on whites, you need to do a bit of research.
Maybe learn about he hundreds of years of slave trade in South America and the fact blacks on the African continent sold the slaves to begin with. It also wasn't black only. All races were part of that particular slave trade.
This must be the most racist commercial I have ever seen. I didn't know that hatred like this was allowed. This was actually shown on television?
Well, Washington Mutual got what they deserve. They have collapsed and have been taken over. After seeing this trash, I can understand why. They didn't know what they were doing. Any company that would create and show racist junk like this was obviously out of control.
Yeah sure, the WAMU way. Portray Whites as "evil" and "stupid" and Blacks as "hip" and "smart". Any wonder this company got flushed down the toilet. Maybe those White guys weren't so stupid after all. Maybe diversity ISN'T all it's cracked up to be. Who was it who defaulted on all those mortgages anyways? Mainly minorities.
Do you really think they would have run this commercial with the races reversed? The White race, more especially White males are the only group of people it is socially acceptable to criticize and mock. Also WAMU has been extensively lauded for its "diversity" and "outreach" to various groups. More focus on business and less on the "joys" of diversity might have kept this corp in business. The price-tag for diversity is a 15 billion dollar company down the drain, lost jobs and despair
Let me clear up a couple of misconceptions that are prevalent in the comments section.
First of all, Wamu was not run by hip minority spokemen, it was in fact run by gentlemen very similar to the banker's pen. Kerry Killinger and Alan H. Fishman were both born in the 1940s and are both white.
WaMu was also predatory and known for defrauding their customers. Many of their practices were illegal and unethical. They did not care about the people they loaned to. They bankrupted themselves rich.
Its funny how 62 percent of minority loans issued by Wamu have failed compared with 9% for all other loan types.....but in this commercial the "white dumbshit pussy-whipped" old school white bankers did not know crap...but the minority spokesperson was giving away the institution with glee and was shown to be the smart one.....NICE
If they had let those old white guys out of the pen, perhaps they'd be solvent today, but then they would have to contend with the possibility of being sued for racism by Bush, Obama, Dems, etc. if they lent responsibly. Dear Pres. Bush and Senator Obama: default rates by race used to be the same! The banks actually knew what they were doing, then you meddled (Obama via ACORN and Bush being President), and now you want to put taxpayers on the hook. WAMU actually believed that stuff.
Yeah sure, the WAMU way. Portray Whites as "evil" and "stupid" and Blacks as "hip" and "smart". Any wonder this company got flushed down the toilet. Maybe those White guys weren't so stupid after all. Maybe diversity ISN'T all it's cracked up to be. Who was it who defaulted on all those mortgages anyways? Mainly minorities.
Do you really think they would have run this commercial with the races reversed? The White race, more especially White males are the only group of people it is socially acceptable to criticize and mock. Also WAMU has been extensively lauded for its "diversity" and "outreach" to various groups. More focus on business and less on the "joys" of diversity might have kept this corp in business. The price-tag for diversity is a 15 billion dollar company down the drain, lost jobs and despair.
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I'm white just to let you know. But you racist whites enslaved millions of innocent people, you racist whites presided over complete corporate dysfunction in the early 20th Century and even today. It's those greedy bankers this ad is making fun of, and if you cannot accept the new world we are living in, you deserve to be mocked.
no, Brent, it's anti-whites like you who are responsible for the mess. I'll change your rant to make it true: you anti-whites killed millions of innocent people with your stupid anti-white hatred. You anti-whites presided over complete societal dysfunction, starting in the early 20th Century and especially today. It's stupid blacks this anti-white ad is glorifying, and if you cannot accept the cesspool you anti-whites create, you deserve to be mocked and ridiculed. There's the truth.
You're going to generalize all whites in America as responsible for slavery...
I'll tell you what you prick. My Irish grandmother was tortured by the English and came to this country for a better life. She washed the floors of Nelson D. Rockefeller's house for chump change.
I don't discriminate, but man, that really pissed me off. Don't fucking say that all white people are responsible for slavery, that's a rancid and moronic generalization.
That's what happens when you ignore reality and start believing your own B.S. Probably a good chunk of the company was staffed with A.A. hires who didn't REALLY make the grade.
Maybe they should have listened to all those evil white men who demanded higher standards for issuing loans. Then they could have saved 10% of the workforce that was laid off.
Looking at this commercial, I want to see a parody of it with the WaMu Guy homeless and the rich banker laughing at him
Ixmore 3 months ago
Wow a lot of finger pointing and name calling directed at WaMu here. WaMu was allowed to fail, all the banks had major sub-prime exposure, but who got helped out? I think the major banks and their buddies at the Fed and in the government, enacted their revenge in 2008, while other banks got bailed out, the people-friendly, largely fee-free bank takes the blame, and is not saved from Bankruptcy. Looks like they pissed off that banker's pen.
Beauchard 4 months ago
Stu the Meat Man!
akateb71489 4 months ago
I used to work for WAMU, loved working for them, great company. I miss WAMU. I now work for *another* bank and I can tell you, big difference. Wish WAMU was still around!
rf101259 7 months ago
@rf101259 I used to work for WAMU, left after the merger. Didn't believe in Chase culture and DEFINITELY didn't believe in its products. WAMU MISSED!
ChaoticHavok 6 months ago
When you offend the strong, you have no one left to support you.
Good riddance, "WaMu".
samuelrosenbalm 7 months ago
Easily the most obvious example of racist advertising. A group of stodgy white bankers corralled together to represent the 'old school way of banking' and the smart ass young black guy coming off as the new standard. If this was all reversed, there would have been a shitstorm of controversy.
GINGERALER 8 months ago 2
@GINGERALER
As a white male, you cannot TRUELY be offened by this.
brightlights456X 5 months ago
Only Americans would find this TVC racist. I'm an Australian and I love this commercial, it was used as a case study by my advertising agency and not one person made a racist reference. It makes fun of the STEREOTYPE of BANKERS, not white people. Using the african american as the staff member of Washington Mutual, shows that they are DIFFERENT. That is all. Stop trying to make this brilliant piece of advertising into something that it is not.
infokill 8 months ago
@infokill To take it further, I think people miss that they used the "African American" because...HE WAS ALREADY THE BANK'S SPOKESPERSON. The ad agency picked him before this ad ever aired. He's also the grapes in Fruit of the Loom ads and has been on "The Office". His name's Wayne Wilderson. Funny guy.
freenachos 6 days ago
Obviously, WaMu's brilliant ideas were not able to save them. Most likely it was those ideas and their pandering to the perpetually stupid that caused them to fail
PhilipNolan49 8 months ago
"Wamu", having helped crash the world economic system with its subprime loans to unqualified minorities, is now thankfully history, but the lib media is still packed with racist anti-white male defamation. The issue is, how long are white men (NORMAL men - not white uncle toms) going to put up with this shit??
Slick2614 9 months ago
Anon. No one cares if you dont trust blacks with your money. Not too many blacks trust you with theirs. Your comment was silly!
chicagomanhydepark 10 months ago
This commercial obviously played into the dark fantasies of certain members of minority groups. This is not unusual however. Because more blacks are entering the middle class but still remain part of the protected class, while advertisers continue to use explicit or implicit violence to sell products, a formula has been concocted to appeal to this demographic: white males will be the subject of humiliation, intimidation, and all sorts of violence at the hands of an authoritative black figure.
buck62sugar 10 months ago
I would never trust a nigger with my money.
Anon371 11 months ago
@JesusSaviorTeaParty The people that truly profited from the financial crisis are Ivy League educated bankers who made millions. They are living the good life in Manhattan, Palm Beach and other exclusive gated community where you and I would not be allowed in. "Blue Blooded only".
So you can spend the rest of your time blaming the black and other minorities for the crisis, while the people that are truly responsible for it are playing golf and laughing at us.
md991free 11 months ago
Stupid "white" "male"
fitz0324 1 year ago
@JesusSaviorTeaParty Hehehe, well I'm not saying you're lying, but do you have any facts and figures? george w. shithole went into a secret meeting w/ White House members and other people, excluding congress from the anything and decided to do this bailout shit that screwed over America. That particular fact was on a news cast that I saw, and most likely on the web. So there, that's what I'm looking for. Otherwise the banks screwed up and the gov't is wiping their asses at taxpayers' expense.
munsterr777 1 year ago
@JesusSaviorTeaParty Hmm, never heard of that, I'm not under the impression however that you can force a bank to give out loans. Besides any economist, anybody that was into real estate during that time saw all that coming, anybody at anytime could've said something about that or tried to cover hiney and skip out before the crash. Real easy. Once again I think both screwed up everything and it's up to regular working class people to clean the up bullshit not pay for it.
munsterr777 1 year ago
@JesusSaviorTeaParty You're saying the gov't forced the banks to hand out ninja loans and do the whole thing with the securities to create the bubble so it would crash? Seems to me that it wasn't the case, but the main thing is that both of them screwed everything up.
munsterr777 1 year ago
@JesusSaviorTeaParty And this was the banks decision wasn't it?
munsterr777 1 year ago
I guess the bankers had the last laugh!
wesrides 1 year ago
To the guys who find racism in this commercial,
Traditional banking executives are pretty much all white. I wonder why
docicu 1 year ago
Chase sucks.
Pygmonicus 1 year ago
White christians built this country and obama-types are gonna tear it down...
boobooboogoo 1 year ago
@boobooboogoo thank bush for that. if he wasnt such a fuck up these people wouldnt have even considered mud man.
Pygmonicus 1 year ago
Does Anybody Have This Commercial With One White Guy Was Wearing The Blue Wamu Shirt And Ripped The Blue Shirt?
Jamal249999 1 year ago
So glad Wamu went belly up. Those racist ads that utilize the older white bankers as a representation of what they think is outmoded really pissed me off. And don't get me started on that smart ass black guy with the condescending tone and smug smirk.
VIEWTUBE00000 2 years ago
To bad washington mutual has gone bankrupt. Just like your country will under a black president! :)
ballemajcus 2 years ago
@ballemajcus
Juliaflo 1 year ago
It's so hip! And the black guy is obama-terrific!
ballemajcus 2 years ago 3
If the white folk was running WAMU, it would still be in business. That's what dey git for appeasing racist blacks....
JE32867 2 years ago 8
This is the most blatantly anti-white racist commercial I've ever seen! Just imagine if the roles were reversed. It's not even funny. I wasn't surprised when WaMu went broke.
jimmim3000 2 years ago 13
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Don't be stupid. The VAST majority of banking execs ARE old white guys. This is a slam against rich f**ks who don't care about anything but getting richer, at other people's expense. It would work the same way if the spokesperson was white.
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The VAST majority of banking execs ARE old jews... that hate white people.
jimmim3000 2 years ago
The sensible and hip brother speakin da troooooot.
ronoman88 2 years ago
WaMOOOO be livin foever and shit. Oh wait. It be dead.
Damn.
mightisright 2 years ago 2
Where is the diversity among the bankers? Advertisers usually like to mix people of different races into these ads.
amalek80 2 years ago 6
Don't you love this racist advertisment?
The hip Black WaMu guy tortures and humiliates old White bankers who wanted to do banking the old way.....
Like not making $400,000 mortgage loans to minorities and illegal aliens who had bad credit scores or insisting on down payments, proof the home buyers had stable jobs.
Yep, WaMu loaned $ billions in sub prime mortgages to bad risk minorities in California, Vegas - now the loans went south, WaMu is history, the US economy is tanked. Thanks.
organizedactivist 2 years ago 38
@organizedactivist
best comment ever.
RedStormCommingIn 1 year ago
@organizedactivist It's a funny ad. The irony of them tanking is funny too. The irony of your comment might be my favorite though, where you call the ad "racist" and then say giving mortgage loans to "minorities" is a bad thing! Well played, ironic commenter!
freenachos 6 days ago
Reverse Psychology
Organjic 3 years ago
In retrospect, these commercials are quite funny. Maybe stodgy has it's place after all.
davepu92 3 years ago
Nice job sucker!
justwannawatchvids 3 years ago
To the people blaming slavery on whites, you need to do a bit of research.
Maybe learn about he hundreds of years of slave trade in South America and the fact blacks on the African continent sold the slaves to begin with. It also wasn't black only. All races were part of that particular slave trade.
Dronetek1 3 years ago 2
lol and you wonder why this craphole failed...
what a racist commercial, where's the multi-culturalism?
FreeLantern 3 years ago 7
This is unbelievable!
This must be the most racist commercial I have ever seen. I didn't know that hatred like this was allowed. This was actually shown on television?
Well, Washington Mutual got what they deserve. They have collapsed and have been taken over. After seeing this trash, I can understand why. They didn't know what they were doing. Any company that would create and show racist junk like this was obviously out of control.
JimWe 3 years ago 4
Yeah sure, the WAMU way. Portray Whites as "evil" and "stupid" and Blacks as "hip" and "smart". Any wonder this company got flushed down the toilet. Maybe those White guys weren't so stupid after all. Maybe diversity ISN'T all it's cracked up to be. Who was it who defaulted on all those mortgages anyways? Mainly minorities.
JJGSeven13 3 years ago
Do you really think they would have run this commercial with the races reversed? The White race, more especially White males are the only group of people it is socially acceptable to criticize and mock. Also WAMU has been extensively lauded for its "diversity" and "outreach" to various groups. More focus on business and less on the "joys" of diversity might have kept this corp in business. The price-tag for diversity is a 15 billion dollar company down the drain, lost jobs and despair
JJGSeven13 3 years ago 5
Let me clear up a couple of misconceptions that are prevalent in the comments section.
First of all, Wamu was not run by hip minority spokemen, it was in fact run by gentlemen very similar to the banker's pen. Kerry Killinger and Alan H. Fishman were both born in the 1940s and are both white.
WaMu was also predatory and known for defrauding their customers. Many of their practices were illegal and unethical. They did not care about the people they loaned to. They bankrupted themselves rich.
Billcasey 3 years ago 4
Wow, Billcasey, yours is about the only sane response in an ocean of inanity. I cannot believe how race-obsessed nearly 100% of these comments are.
God help the Obama administration. Everything he does will be seen through color-tinted glasses, by a lot more Americans than we'd like to believe.
TroyOi 3 years ago
like the people who voted for him because he was black?
Kil6969 3 years ago 2
Thanks for posting this.
AmethystWillow 3 years ago
Its funny how 62 percent of minority loans issued by Wamu have failed compared with 9% for all other loan types.....but in this commercial the "white dumbshit pussy-whipped" old school white bankers did not know crap...but the minority spokesperson was giving away the institution with glee and was shown to be the smart one.....NICE
tjenk71 3 years ago 2
If they had let those old white guys out of the pen, perhaps they'd be solvent today, but then they would have to contend with the possibility of being sued for racism by Bush, Obama, Dems, etc. if they lent responsibly. Dear Pres. Bush and Senator Obama: default rates by race used to be the same! The banks actually knew what they were doing, then you meddled (Obama via ACORN and Bush being President), and now you want to put taxpayers on the hook. WAMU actually believed that stuff.
daviddahlia 3 years ago 3
WaMu---going, going, gone.
goordye 3 years ago 6
Hey WaMu, let the stodgy old white bankers out of the pen. Maybe they'll know how to keep you solvent!
ignoblius 3 years ago 6
This ad is racist, and I'd glad that WaMu went bankrupt.
oatmealdog 3 years ago 4
You're racist.
BrettR4763 3 years ago
You're anti-white.
kmike76 3 years ago 2
Yeah sure, the WAMU way. Portray Whites as "evil" and "stupid" and Blacks as "hip" and "smart". Any wonder this company got flushed down the toilet. Maybe those White guys weren't so stupid after all. Maybe diversity ISN'T all it's cracked up to be. Who was it who defaulted on all those mortgages anyways? Mainly minorities.
breezeman199 3 years ago 10
Its a commercial, not real life. You're going blame diversity on a silly commercial?
Imagene234 3 years ago
It's reality.
They run themselves into the ground due to their commitment to diversity by making loans to minorities that were never going to pay them back.
ebeneezzer 3 years ago 9
Do you really think they would have run this commercial with the races reversed? The White race, more especially White males are the only group of people it is socially acceptable to criticize and mock. Also WAMU has been extensively lauded for its "diversity" and "outreach" to various groups. More focus on business and less on the "joys" of diversity might have kept this corp in business. The price-tag for diversity is a 15 billion dollar company down the drain, lost jobs and despair.
breezeman199 3 years ago 7
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Well, you racist white guys deserve to be mocked.
BrettR4763 3 years ago
no, anti-whites like you, Brett, deserve to be mocked.
kmike76 3 years ago 3
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I'm white just to let you know. But you racist whites enslaved millions of innocent people, you racist whites presided over complete corporate dysfunction in the early 20th Century and even today. It's those greedy bankers this ad is making fun of, and if you cannot accept the new world we are living in, you deserve to be mocked.
BrettR4763 3 years ago
no, Brent, it's anti-whites like you who are responsible for the mess. I'll change your rant to make it true: you anti-whites killed millions of innocent people with your stupid anti-white hatred. You anti-whites presided over complete societal dysfunction, starting in the early 20th Century and especially today. It's stupid blacks this anti-white ad is glorifying, and if you cannot accept the cesspool you anti-whites create, you deserve to be mocked and ridiculed. There's the truth.
kmike76 3 years ago 4
That is just plain asinine man.
SERIOUSLY?!
You're going to generalize all whites in America as responsible for slavery...
I'll tell you what you prick. My Irish grandmother was tortured by the English and came to this country for a better life. She washed the floors of Nelson D. Rockefeller's house for chump change.
I don't discriminate, but man, that really pissed me off. Don't fucking say that all white people are responsible for slavery, that's a rancid and moronic generalization.
FreeLantern 3 years ago 4
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I loved these ads that featured old white guys and the hip (nigger) WAMU banker who schooled them in the new ways of banking.
This is what happens to financial institutions that worship non-whites.
Fuck you, WAMU!!
seIousscout 3 years ago 8
That's what happens when you ignore reality and start believing your own B.S. Probably a good chunk of the company was staffed with A.A. hires who didn't REALLY make the grade.
breezeman199 3 years ago 8
Irony at its best. Where is WaMu now? Maybe those old white bastards werent as stupid as the commercial made them look.
Quiksilver209 3 years ago 15
They *really* believed what they said in their advertising, didn't they? Too bad.
daviddahlia 3 years ago 3
Ahahahahahahahahahahaaaaa. Those stupid bankers...wait a minute
hugebigfat 3 years ago 10
Maybe they should have listened to all those evil white men who demanded higher standards for issuing loans. Then they could have saved 10% of the workforce that was laid off.
ApolloScreed2 3 years ago 10
Talk about uproar, could you imagine what would happen if Brinks home security placed a black male in the role of the burgler in one of its ads?
I think Fergie did something like that in a book for children and there was a huge uproar.
ScubaSteve1974 5 years ago 12
Super racist advertising. Imagine the outroar if the pen was full of all women or any other group than WHITE.
onoididint 5 years ago 24