Not many black people in TV commercials...

[KlokWyze]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMglRv2Lva0


YA PUT YER WATERMEEELON PUDDIN IN THE BLACK KID AND YOU DO THE WIGGLIN AND THE WAGGLIN

ITS A LOT LIKE KODAK FEEEEEEEELM YA SEE.

What were those kids doing under those watermelons!?!?!?!?!

 

[mitchelt]

Why are white people always concerned about racism.

Because we are always accused of being racist?

 

[mitchelt]

Why is the burglar in home security commercials always a white male?

Because if they were black...Obama, Holder, Jackson and Sharpton would be calling the security company racists. :sneaky:

 

[mitchelt]

White males play the fools.
White males play the scary burglars.
White males play the dumb bosses.
White males play the dumb husbands.

Why? Because advertisers are pussies and special interest groups would pull the racism card if minorities where portrayed that way.

AMEN!

 

[JulesMaximus]

I think there are just enough black people in commercials.

 

[SheHateMe]

I don't find black woman attractive.

You and everyone else on AT. So, why make a thread about it?

....what does that comment have to do with your question anyway?

 

[Mixolydian]

You and everyone else on AT.

Ahem.

:wub:

 

[JManInPhoenix]

* On a personal note, I don't find black woman attractive.

Not even Zoe Saldana or Thandie Newton?

 

[brainhulk]

* On a personal note, I don't find black woman attractive.

Wut?

The blacker the Halle Berry, the sweeter the juice

The best lap dance I've ever had. Black girl.

 

[HumblePie]

From a technical perspective, really really DARK skinned people don't show up on the camera all that well. Not enough contrast with light and shadows over the skin to portray features. Djimon Hounsou is about as dark an actor as you'll see in front of a screen usually. Any darker and it's really hard to get good facial features to show up correctly without over saturation of lighting.

 

[Red Storm]

We would need to see data regarding black viewership of the channels you mentioned.

Food network and DIY channel...I have no idea.

it makes more sense to show commercials portraying the races of the viewers.

Unfortunately this type of common sense always seems to elude those who ponder this stuff out loud.

 

[Leyawiin]

Too many commercials that show white guys as being useless little bitches that fail at everything in life

White males play the fools.
White males play the scary burglars.
White males play the dumb bosses.
White males play the dumb husbands.

Why? Because advertisers are pussies and special interest groups would pull the racism card if minorities where portrayed that way.

I thought I was the only one who noticed this. There's an esurance commercial out now that shows this clueless white guy filling an above ground pool with a garden hose with his ignorance on full display while his black neighbor stands behind him rolling his eyes. They are the only socially acceptable targets of ridicule left in advertising. If it were a man "of color" or a woman placed in these scenarios everyone would cry "That's racist/sexist!".

 

[QueBert]

Not even Zoe Saldana or Thandie Newton?

Zoe's Spanish, she's hot but not black and Thandie's half white so they'll say she's technically not really black.

 

[HumblePie]

Zoe's Spanish, she's hot but not black and Thandie's half white so they'll say she's technically not really black.

As far as Zoe goes... here's her words from a quote...

When I go to the D.R., the press in Santo Domingo always asks, "¿Qué te consideras, dominicana o americana?" (What do you consider yourself, Dominican or American?) I don't understand it, and it's the same people asking the same question. So I say, time and time again, "Yo soy una mujer negra." ("I am a black woman.") [They go] "Oh, no, tú eres trigueñita." ("Oh no, you are 'dark skinned'") I'm like, "No! Let's get it straight, yo soy una mujer negra." ("I am a black woman.")

 

[QueBert]

White males play everything

Why? Because advertisers are racist

FTFY, seeing how I don't see people of color in any commercials your logic here's super flawed. I could see your point if people of color were in every other kind of commercial. But I literally almost never see them in any. It's white people in all of them, good or bad.

As far as Zoe goes... here's her words from a quote...

She can say whatever she wants, she can say it until she's blue in the face but that doesn't make it correct. She probably says it because she grew tired of explaining herself to morons. I'm Scottish and have red hair, maybe I'll start telling people I'm Irish, because well I could pass for Irish. Most people assume I'm Irish anyways, and shit Scottish and Irish are the same thing, or at least pretty close right?

 

[ImpulsE69]

FTFY, seeing how I don't see people of color in any commercials your logic here's super flawed. I could see your point if people of color were in every other kind of commercial. But I literally almost never see them in any. It's white people in all of them, good or bad.

Eh, some of it is true, but it's also like how before you buy a new car, you hardly ever see any on the road, then the day after you see them everywhere.

If you were black, you'd see them.

 

[SheHateMe]

She can say whatever she wants, she can say it until she's blue in the face but that doesn't make it correct. She probably says it because she grew tired of explaining herself to morons. I'm Scottish and have red hair, maybe I'll start telling people I'm Irish, because well I could pass for Irish. Most people assume I'm Irish anyways, and shit Scottish and Irish are the same thing, or at least pretty close right?

So....She's not black because you say she isnt.

Zoe has always identified as a black Latina because that's what she is.

 

[QueBert]

So....She's not black because you say she isnt.

Zoe has always identified as a black Latina because that's what she is.

Every time I see her mention what she is, it's always black. Never Latina, on any application where you have to put your ethnicity she would check the box Latino not black

 

[NetWareHead]

So....She's not black because you say she isnt.

Zoe has always identified as a black Latina because that's what she is.

It makes sense. He obviously knows more than she does about which race she identifies with. Seems logical to me

 

[Phoenix86]

So you're saying black actors don't want to be successful because "black ghetto culture" will look down on them? Like they do Oprah, Denzel, Sam Jackson & Cosby? Oh wait, they don't. I dunno, but I'd assume if a black actor got offered a gig that paid money they're not going to not do it because Jerome from 125th St. might consider them a sell out. Without any inside knowledge of Hollywood and advertising, I'd have to take a wild guess that the reason is black actors aren't in high demand.

But you might be right, maybe they are getting offered tons of work but turn it down because ghetto kids will think poorly of them.

Interesting you mentioned Cosby, hasn't he been called a sell out by the black community many times?

 

[Phoenix86]

Zoe's Spanish, she's hot but not black and Thandie's half white so they'll say she's technically not really black.

What % makes you black enough?

Seriously. Do you have any fucking idea what that kind of logic led to in the past? Why the fuck do you know or care what % of blackness people are?

Thinking like this is why racism is still around.

 

[Leyawiin]

What % makes you black enough?

Seriously. Do you have any fucking idea what that kind of logic led to in the past? Why the fuck do you know or care what % of blackness people are?

Thinking like this is why racism is still around.

What gob-smacks me is the pervasive "one drop" attitude in America. Any other mixed race person in this country will usually be quick to say "I'm half white and half Filipino" or "I'm half Mexican and half Chinese", but the tiniest fraction of African ancestry negates everything else and the person is automatically "black".

 

[MongGrel]

Not even Zoe Saldana or Thandie Newton?

+1

Yeah and was going to add a Halle Berry myself, but it's all hair splitting on the ethnicity there.

I like how Halle said she still had her X-Men leather costume somewhere once and it was involved in some interesting role play, heh.

 

[SheHateMe]

What gob-smacks me is the pervasive "one drop" attitude in America. Any other mixed race person in this country will usually be quick to say "I'm half white and half Filipino" or "I'm half Mexican and half Chinese", but the tiniest fraction of African ancestry negates everything else and the person is automatically "black".

Do you know where the "one drop" rule came from?


I find it surprising that Quebert would say that Zoe Saldana is not a black woman (even if she identifies as such), She is Dominican...and Dominicans have been proven to have African ancestry. Some of them a lot more than others...yet, even those Dominicans who are clearly African will say that they are not black and that they are just "Dominican"

Meanwhile, in Brazil, people have no problem identifying as black or white. Heck, even some fair skinned Brazilians identify as black. Brazil probably has the highest population of mixed race people in the world.

People typically identify with whatever race they fit in with the most. Some people simply like to refer to themselves as "mixed", that's fine too.

Zoe knows what she is. She is a Black Latina. She has no problem with it. Other Dominicans seem to have a problem with their racial makeup. Halle Berry and Thandie Newton also identify as a black women. Black women come in all shades...so, I really wish people like Quebert weren't so ignorant. You don't find black women attractive, OK...but DON'T try to pretend like some black women aren't really black just because they are mixed.

By his logic, you could say that Alicia Keys isn't a black woman because her mother is an Italian white woman.

 

[QueBert]

Do you know where the "one drop" rule came from?


I find it surprising that Quebert would say that Zoe Saldana is not a black woman (even if she identifies as such), She is Dominican...and Dominicans have been proven to have African ancestry. Some of them a lot more than others...yet, even those Dominicans who are clearly African will say that they are not black and that they are just "Dominican"

Meanwhile, in Brazil, people have no problem identifying as black or white. Heck, even some fair skinned Brazilians identify as black. Brazil probably has the highest population of mixed race people in the world.

People typically identify with whatever race they fit in with the most. Some people simply like to refer to themselves as "mixed", that's fine too.

Zoe knows what she is. She is a Black Latina. She has no problem with it. Other Dominicans seem to have a problem with their racial makeup. Halle Berry and Thandie Newton also identify as a black women. Black women come in all shades...so, I really wish people like Quebert weren't so ignorant. You don't find black women attractive, OK...but DON'T try to pretend like some black women aren't really black just because they are mixed.

By his logic, you could say that Alicia Keys isn't a black woman because her mother is an Italian white woman.

Don't find black females attractive? You got me pegged all wrong lol, there's very few white men on the planet who like black females as much as I do. Now I don't like females simply because they're black, and I actually don't like most. But the few females on the planet I do like are all black. I have a huge Serena Williams poster on my wall, I'm pretty sure the only men who find her attractive are ones who like black females. And I still stand behind what I said about Zoe. Go to DR and call the people there black, you probably won't make it home unscathed.

In my eyes Alicia Keys is black because she has a parent who's actually African American. Zoe doesn't, she has some ansestorial heritage way back that could possibly be linked, but it's definitely not direct.