A Ram truck ad that used a speech by Martin Luther King
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supposed to highlight the volunteer program Ram Nation.
But it was criticized by viewers and ad experts alike for forging too tenuous a connection with the civil rights hero.
On Twitter, most people expressed the idea that using King’s speech to ”sell trucks” crossed a line between a heartfelt message and exploiting emotions just
to push a vehicle.
”They pushed it over the edge,” said Kelly O’Keefe
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didn’t end up fitting the brand, so you ended up feeling a little bit
manipulated.”
”The use of MLK to promote Ram trucks strikes many people as crass and inappropriate,” said Tim Calkins, a marketing professor at Northwestern
University.
Watching at home
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”I liked being reminded of Martin Luther King’s speech (but) I’m not sure it was fitting for a truck commercial,” said Kimberly Stites, who was watching the
game in Gretna, Nebraska. ”I would have liked it better if they had said
something like, `This reminder of all that we can be brought to you by ….”’
Fiat Chrysler said in a statement that it worked closely with the King estate on the ad.
The firm managing King’s intellectual property
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On Twitter, the King Center in Atlanta said neither it nor Bernice King, King’s daughter, are in charge of licensing King’s speeches or other
intellectual property.
The ad is not the first one to use a King Speech. Telecom Alcatel used King’s ”I Have a Dream” speech in a 1999 ad that was also approved by IPM.
That ad shows King giving his most famous speech to an empty Mall in Washington D.C. to illustrate the idea that ”before you can touch
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Eds: An earlier version of this story mistakenly referred to Ram trucks, which are no longer affiliated with the Dodge brand.
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