I’d like to buy the world a home
And furnish it with love
Grow apple trees and honey bees
And snow white turtle doves.
I’d like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I’d like to buy the world a Coke
And keep it company
That’s the real thing.

Many readers may remember that catchy song from the 1970s. You can watch the video HERE. I was around in the 1970s and don’t remember the commercial getting much, if any, negative comments. There were boys and girls, blacks and whites, and people from all over the world in the video.

They performed the song in English.

Coke released another advertisement on Super Bowl Sunday with people singing “America the Beautiful.” They performed the song in different languages.

Watch and listen to it here:

From what I have read, that commercial ticked off many people.

The Kansas City Star reported that several people left comments on Twitter and Facebook. One commenter said, “Nice to see that coke likes to sing an AMERICAN song in the terrorist’s language. Way to go coke. You can leave America.”

Another person said, “Still confused as to why they were singing about America in all those foreign languages in the Coke commercial. We speak English …”

Those were the nicer comments.

Over at the Public Shaming blog, they were not as nice. One person wrote, “That coke commercial sucked. Mexicans, terrorists, jews, and (n-word) are not ‘American.’”

Sometimes I am amazed at the ignorance displayed by some people.

I really like the commercial – it was one of the few that I searched for and watched again on Monday.

So I salute Coke for producing a wonderful commercial that reminds us that our fellow citizens may not look and sound like you and me.

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