NBA Using Hayward for "Good Dad" PSA

[Darkwing Duck]

Sweet! A good dad ad got turned into a sexist, racist debate!

Go Jazzfanz!

Well, given the comment in the opening post, what would you expect?

 

[str8line]

He should have been helping with the baby by the pool with his wife in a bikini.

Back on track...

 

[RandyForRubio]

Since we're already there. I did kind of get a "white-splaining" vibe because a white NBA player is being used to promote fatherhood to the NBA and their audience.

This was just one ad.

Pretty sure they used Chris Bosh and DeMar DeRozan as well.

 

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[LifeOnaPlate]

Why does this thread have this nasty photo on the main page?

 

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[str8line]

Let the love shine.

 

[Miggs]

She looks like a hotter Amy Adams.

 

[str8line]

You can win with me. I wasn't really addressing my comment to you.

Using a white dad in the NBA to show the NBA and their fans what a good dad looks like is what it is. I don't think this is a serious issue (the using of a white player) but to act like there isn't a stereotype regarding black fathers is not intellectually honest. Fact is, there is a HUGE problem in poor black neighborhoods (a place where the NBA is probably especially popular) with absent fathers. That's a real problem that needs to be addressed. I don't have a problem with them using Hayward to make their feelgood commercial, but it is a little amusing.

So who's taking this issue a little too seriously? I don't think it's me. I don't think it's Siro.

Maybe it's aimed at white polygamist fathers?

 

[LifeOnaPlate]

She looks like a hotter Amy Adams.

He kinda does, too, tbh