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Monday, December 21, 2009

HP Webcam YouTube Video

We just saw a 'Brand ER' tweet about Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP), and we hope HP saw it too! It's crunch time - give the people an answer!
@sacca Oh, man. Talk about a brand emergency! RT @Mike_FTW Apparently HP stands for Honkie 'Puter http://bit.ly/7SmLcg
The hyperlinked video will take you to a YouTube video - that show's the webcam of an HP computer tracking/following a white woman, but not a black man. The black man states, "I'm going on record, and I'm saying it. Hewlett-Packard Compters are racist." Yes, it could be a number of variables like lighting, but... why is this happening? It will be interesting to see how much attention this video gets. Currently, there are 75,481 views of the video. Watch it for yourself.
-Jacq (@jacqsmith)