CHEERIOS STANDS BY TV AD SHOWING MIXED-RACE FAMILY

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NEW YORK (AP) - A mom sits at her kitchen table writing something down when her grade schooler saunters up with a big box of Cheerios

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[lamardeuse]

How much do you want to bet the vitriol would have been halved if it was a white man and a black woman? I'd heard about the commercial and I was even more surprised that they went with the black man/white woman casting, because it's guraranteed that every racist American will be freaking out of their mind at that. Anyway, good for General Mills for not presenting the status quo in advertising, and I hope it leads to more of the same.

[thelilyqueen]

Me too.

I'd heard there was controversy over a Cheerios commercial and issues of race, but for whatever reason that was all I heard initially; I was expecting the criticism to be valid because they'd presented the black parent as a buffoon or played heavily into racial stereotypes. Sad comment on the state of the media, and society in general.

[betray802]

And notice nobody saying anything about the State Farm ad with an Asian-American father and African-American mother, and their little kid in a stroller.

[girlomega]

That's because no one cares if there isn't a white person. No racial purity to worry about there, hyuk!

[lamardeuse]

Yeah, of course white people wouldn't care about that - that reminds me though, that I really should have said there's a lot of racist White Woman/Anyone Who Isn't White bullshit out there, in general. But I think they get extra-crunchy when the white wimminz are paired with an African-American man.

[keeni84]

The guy in that ad was the State Farm rep, not the father.

[keeni84]

How much do you want to bet the vitriol would have been halved if it was a white man and a black woman?

The vitriol would have been of a different sort.

[lamardeuse]

*nods* Very true.

[keeni84]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52FVcN-yKzo

The racism in the comments (before the comments were disabled) was pretty terrible.

[lamardeuse]

Ugh, yeah, I don't doubt it. There are so many racist assholes, and they all seem to have an internet connection these days. /o\

[keeni84]

I was thinking about that earlier.

So many dumbass people think that Reddit or Youtube gives them license to just fucking be an idiot. It makes me fucking angry sometimes.

[crooked_halo]

BUT BUT! FREE SPEECH!

Which of course, means that anyone is free to say whatever the fuck they want without regards for anyone else, and that they shouldn't have to abide by any website's terms of conditions because all of those violate their first amendment rights.

[keeni84]

Also, your icon reminds me of all the bullshit that happened with Uhura and Spock. Like...WHY???????

[lamardeuse]

I know, right? I'm a fan of TOS, not so much the reboot, but one of the things I did like about the new movies was what they did with Uhura and Spock. And all these TOS "purists" were talking about how there was never anything between Spock and Uhura...uh, WRONG:

That was some serious goddamn chemistry right there.

[alryssa]

Ugh, I will be a TOS stan FOREVER, tbh.

[roseofjuly]

I watched the first fucking EPISODE of Star Trek TOS the other day on hulu and you could see something between Spock and Uhura.