Understand something, we're on a racism witch hunt to try and justify the existance of the "minorities, especially blacks, are persecuted" mentality. I mean heck, for a while pretty much every single video game coming out had people attacking it for racism. This is at a time when we have a black guy as the leader of the free world.
Racism is a boogieman some people need to exist for purposes of self validation and justification. I mean all those "Thugs" out there can't justify themselves as misunderstood heroes if there isn't some massive conspiricy keeping them down so there is "no other way".
Given that this was even discovered leads me to believe that someone was trying to get attention. I mean honestly, when I look at ads like that one, like most people I do not sit there and go "hmmm, do the hands on that image match the face?". Truthfully I'd imagine the whole ad campaign to go by without anyone noticing unless someone (probably the person responsible) made a point of pointing it out. Given that this seemed to start in the "Blogosphere" rather than anything more official makes me think it's an attempt at
rabble rousing. Some guy probably figured it would be a way of helping to justify keeping the racism boogieman around (perhaps even thinking that it was neededm, since the boogieman was just too well hidden otherwise) while striking against the evil empire that is Microsoft at the same time.
The proper response to this whole thing is pretty much to go 'so?' and let it die. It doesn't deserve attention.
