Four years ago, Singaporean siblings Subhas and Preeti Nair packed their camera gear, headed to a popular hawker center in downtown Singapore, and shot a video that would become the talk of the town—and ultimately land Subhas with a jail sentence.
In the video, they rapped about racism in Singapore in front of a large banner—part of a nationwide advertisement campaign—plastered across the open-air food court’s entrance. Meant to show how an electronic payment system was accessible to Singaporeans from all walks of life, the ad featured actor Dennis Chew portraying several characters using the app—from a man dressed in literal blue-collar attire to a woman in a headscarf typically worn by Malay Muslims to a man in business attire with his skin artificially darkened to appear Indian, complete with a name badge that read: “K. Muthusamy.”
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