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    Hysterical and Ridiculous 1970s Afro-Sheen Ad

    Once upon a time, back in the 1970s, an advertising copywriter had a brilliant idea: Let's use famous former slave/abolitionist Frederick Douglass in an ad for Afro Sheen!  And the rest is (very stupid) advertising history ...

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