Cheerios Ad with Biracial Family

poet said:
PLease. LOLOLOL. When have I ever been wrong? That was rhetorical.
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Like O.J., who was being a "good negro", on the playing field, in the movies, playing the endearing buffoon....as long as he was providing some "return", he was forgiven his predilection for "white women", until he murdered one....his wife. Then all bets
were off.Likewise, as long as Clarence Thomas is portraying himself as, essentially, a racist, conservative, "white" Supreme Court
Justice, he is not going to, nor has he been criticize for having a "white wife", which is rather strange, seeing that he is an equal opportunity sexual predator which no restrictions on race, per Anita Hill.
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so you think OJ would have been found guilty if his wife was black and that whites wouldn't support Thomas if his wife was black?.......how about Tiger Woods....would he have gotten a hole in one if the one was black?.......
 
PostmodernProphet said:
unless your assumptions are simply wrong....maybe they just like him because he's conservative and don't care who he's married to....
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I think Thomas is a crook, no matter what his genetics. He gets away with it because he does what he is told by the people he is beholden to. I know that applies to many people in DC, but
nowhere is it as harmful as on the Supreme Court. There are only 9 of them and no term limits. That he is black is just ONE MORE reason to be disappointed in him. That he married a white person (of either sex) makes no difference to me at all.

But, returning to thread, we need to see more mixed families on TV and in the movies so the next generation who will not learn it at home will know it's a good thing.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
so you think OJ would have been found guilty if his wife was black and that whites wouldn't support Thomas if his wife was black?.......
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I think it's more that if Thomas didn't uphold the conservative agenda straight up the line, he'd be getting a lot more grief because his wife is white, including a lot of hate comments on the internet.

But as Red Mule said -
But, returning to thread, we need to see more mixed families on TV and in the movies so the next generation who will not learn it at home will know it's a good thing.
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I think the existence of mixed race, minority race, and gay/lesbian people on TV and movies HAVE helped move this country to more acceptance. But what helps even more is when people have personal experience of it -when relatives marry someone of a different race, or a relative reveals themselves as being lesbian/gay

But as the comments on this Cheerios ad shows - we are NOT a race-neutral society yet, by any means. And it's not all 13 year olds posting on the comment thread.

I have a cousin who recently got married. He and his wife will not go to eastern Washington state. Why? He's half-black/half-white; she is all white.

As his mom, my aunt says - when he's walking down the street - he's black. People who look at him rarely get so nuanced as to determine what his mix is.

So YEA for this Cheerios ad! and I'm looking forward to the day when an ad like this causes zero stir in regards to race.
 
I like Clarence Thomas for the same reasons I like JC Watts ... I agree with a lot of his stances on many of the issues. I didn't even know he had a "white" wife, nor do I care.
 
leaningright said:
I like Clarence Thomas for the same reasons I like JC Watts ... I agree with a lot of his stances on many of the issues. I didn't even know he had a "white" wife, nor do I care.
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Then you also may not know that his wife received a lot of funding from anti-Obamacare organizations ... which led some of us to wonder about Thomas' objectivity when the case came in front of the Supreme Court.

That has nothing to do with the race of the wife of course; just mentioning.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
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so you think OJ would have been found guilty if his wife was black and that whites wouldn't support Thomas if his wife was black?.......how about Tiger Woods....would he have gotten a hole in one if the one was black?.......
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Most definitely...he only got off because he was famous, had money, and a crack defense team. If he had been "Joe Blow", he would have been convicted in a heartbeat. And it helped that the prosecution was clueless and LAPD was inept and had an idiot racist in their rank and file. And you twisted my words. Nowhere did I say that whom Thomas was married to, mattered, to the point of not garnering support. He is supported, despite his white white, because he tows the racist white conservative party line.
Tiger Woods, who also suffers from "white trophy wife"....got his comeuppance when it was shown that he, too, was a "ho", which not only cost him lucrative endorsements, half of his fortune, his wife, and his peace of mind and prestige, but his mojo.
 
leaningright said:
I like Clarence Thomas for the same reasons I like JC Watts ... I agree with a lot of his stances on many of the issues. I didn't even know he had a "white" wife, nor do I care.
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Why did you put white in quotes? I think a former Monsanto lawyer should recuse himself from cases involving Monsanto, but hey, I'm no lawyer. Also:

Virginia Thomas earned over $680,000 from conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation over five years, a group says. But Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas did not include it on financial disclosure forms.
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http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/22/nation/la-na-thomas-disclosure-20110122
 
I think there's a certain amount of bullshitting ourselves about how far we have to go to really become a post racial society. I mean for certain we have come a long way in my life time. A lot of the change in attitudes though is window dressing. From my perspective outright, over the top racist attitudes are no longer considered socially acceptable but that doesn't mean racist attitudes have ended. My experience is that being openly bigoted hasn't been replaced by acceptance but in large measure has been replaced by soft racism. My point being is that educating people that racism is wrong isn't the same as changing attitudes about race.

What suprises me is that the wingnuts haven't tried to interpose their "soft racism of low expectations" argument which is a circle jerk argument they commonly use to rationalize their hard racism.
 
tekkychick said:
I think it's more that if Thomas didn't uphold the conservative agenda straight up the line, he'd be getting a lot more grief because his wife is white, including a lot of hate comments on the internet.
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I wonder if it would balance out all the hate comments he gets from the left about having a white wife?......
 
poet said:
he only got off because he was famous, had money, and a crack defense team.
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at least up to this point you were smart enough to figure out it had nothing to do with his race or that of his wife.....
If he had been "Joe Blow", he would have been convicted in a heartbeat. And it helped that the prosecution was clueless and LAPD was inept and had an idiot racist in their rank and file. And you twisted my words. Nowhere did I say that whom Thomas was married to, mattered, to the point of not garnering support. He is supported, despite his white white, because he tows the racist white conservative party line.
Tiger Woods, who also suffers from "white trophy wife"....got his comeuppance when it was shown that he, too, was a "ho", which not only cost him lucrative endorsements, half of his fortune, his wife, and his peace of mind and prestige, but his mojo.
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I find it amusing that even though you demonstrate extreme racism, you only see it in others......
 
blackascoal said:
Who said it was a problem?

I don't think you got the satirical nature of Sierra's post.

Is my commenting on your posts a problem for you?
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No....your commenting on my posts is not a problem....your inability to distinguish satire from irony is, however.
 
PostmodernProphet said:
at least up to this point you were smart enough to figure out it had nothing to do with his race or that of his wife.....


I find it amusing that even though you demonstrate extreme racism, you only see it in others......
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Excuse me? The "trial of the century" had everything to do with "race", in addition to money and fame. For the first time in
memory, a "black man", guilty as sin, got "off", because of stellar legal representation, and a breakdown in justice.....the former being "routine" for the wealthy and "white".
And the funny thing about racism is it is based on falsehoods....the belief that one race is better or preferable to another. Find
the falsehood or racism in any of my statements. I'll wait. I'm no racist, as I have stated, ad nauseam.
 
poet said:
Excuse me? The "trial of the century" had everything to do with "race", in addition to money and fame. For the first time in
memory, a "black man", guilty as sin, got "off", because of stellar legal representation, and a breakdown in justice.....the former being "routine" for the wealthy and "white".
And the funny thing about racism is it is based on falsehoods....the belief that one race is better or preferable to another. Find
the falsehood or racism in any of my statements. I'll wait. I'm no racist, as I have stated, ad nauseam.
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So when blacks chant "black power" is that racist?
 
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