Now it’s racist to say oil comes from Arab countries.

Business Week:

A new T. Boone Pickens television commercial promoting U.S. energy independence uses “racist tactics” offensive to people of Arab descent and should be pulled, an Arab-American civil rights group said today.
The advertisement begins with Pickens reading two sentences which flash across the screen in Arabic, then in English: “Go back to sleep America. The oil crisis is over.” Men with guns stand in front of burning oil fields as “ominous” music plays, according to a statement by the American-Arab Anti- Discrimination Committee in Washington.
“The whole tone of the advertisement suggests that the foreign oil that the United States is dependent on comes only from Arab countries,” according to the statement. It cited Energy Department statistics showing that the largest oil exporters to the U.S. are Canada and Mexico.
Jay Rosser, a spokesman for the billionaire energy investor, said in an e-mail, “The ads were reviewed as part of the approval process at major cable networks, and there were no issues raised.”
Pickens, chairman of Dallas-based BP Capital LLC, said in November that he has spent $62 million on “the Pickens Plan,” an initiative he began in 2008 to encourage the reduction of oil imports. It calls for the use of domestic natural gas to fuel buses and trucks and for wind energy to run power plants.