Sony is racist?

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Some may consider this old news whereas others may raise an eyebrow and mumble “what…?” from their lips, having never seen it before. Sony is directing their advertisements to be unique and different, which they certainly are… but did I mention racist as well?In July of 2006, Sony abruptly pulled a new Playstation Portable Ad in Holland for complaints of its contents being extremely racist and offensive. The Dutch are no strangers to weird and obscene things, but they simply did not tolerate this campaign. The picture shown is the actual billboard for the PSP ad with a white woman palming the face of a black counterpart, representing the PSP White which is coming. Although the new ceramic-white PSP looks amazing, and should be a sharp contrast (to say the least) to the standard black gaming device; it may have hurt the company’s struggling reputation. Between faulty laptop batteries, backorders on the Playstation 3 in Europe, sagging sales in tube televisions, not to mention stiff competition, indifferent investors, stock which hasn't seen a steady climb above $50 since 2002 and now an apparent targeted racial attack… things haven't exactly been going their way. Now call me crazy if this is normal, but has anyone actually seen the PSP commercials out in the U.S.? The spokesperson for the PSP is a piece of dirt… a ball of dirt; a floating pigpen. What the hell is that supposed to mean