pbrauer
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I just saw this ad on CNN, I didn't see a problem with it until the host said it brought out the racists.
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Cheerios Ad Brings Out the Racists (VIDEO)
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Despite the uptick in interracial couples on TV, the advertising world, as Ad Age reported last year, has been slow to catch up. A handful of ad campaigns have included such couples, but “more the norm are ads like the ones for eHarmony or Viagra, which seem to go to great lengths to show same-race couples,” as David Morse wrote. Among the exceptions: a 2004 Verizon ad, a white father and Latina mother were featured in a campaign that Slate’s Seth Stevenson described as “more like a sitcom,” successfully avoiding the sentiment of being a gimmick or pandering.
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Cheerios Ad Brings Out the Racists (VIDEO)