Post by Christie Bremmer on Jun 6, 2013 16:32:45 GMT -5
I realise being banned from AW is the norm, but for the following message. Wow! That crowd has gone totally nuts. I posted it in the thread that was discussing the interracial couple on the Cheerio's commercial that is causing such an uproar. So many people find it offensive.
"Oh what a lovely little girl. Such beautiful hair. It's been suggested that Cheerios made this commercial bi-racial to give them more publicity and show how unbiased they were. I don't, of course, believe that for a minute. I don't think they even thought about the races of those involved. The actors just happened to be white, black and mulatto.
It's also been said that it's disproportionate how many black people are now in ads, as blacks only make up about 13% of the US population. I think, however, that this is a somewhat cynical viewpoint. Inter-racial marriage, of course, is still illegal in some Arab countries, and used to be illegal in the US until just a few decades ago. Incredible, isn't it, all this fuss about skin colour.
We've come so far in the last little while with gay marriages and interracial marriages. This long overdue policy of inclusiveness has totally liberated and improved Western society and is part of the reason we are doing so much better today, in every way, than we were in say the 1950s."
"Oh what a lovely little girl. Such beautiful hair. It's been suggested that Cheerios made this commercial bi-racial to give them more publicity and show how unbiased they were. I don't, of course, believe that for a minute. I don't think they even thought about the races of those involved. The actors just happened to be white, black and mulatto.
It's also been said that it's disproportionate how many black people are now in ads, as blacks only make up about 13% of the US population. I think, however, that this is a somewhat cynical viewpoint. Inter-racial marriage, of course, is still illegal in some Arab countries, and used to be illegal in the US until just a few decades ago. Incredible, isn't it, all this fuss about skin colour.
We've come so far in the last little while with gay marriages and interracial marriages. This long overdue policy of inclusiveness has totally liberated and improved Western society and is part of the reason we are doing so much better today, in every way, than we were in say the 1950s."
