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Not many black people in TV commercials...

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DesiPower said:
buzz off lurker, 9 years and 1000 posts, what? like you have a real life or something??
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You're right, I should be like cheez and set up subtle trolling self-help posts for extra neffpoints.

Did you know if you avoid oily foods your face wont get oily?
 
Why is it that in movies and TV you see boobies and vag all over but rarely see penis?

I wonder how women feel about this and if they notice it?

Do you notice this?

*On a personal note, I do not find penis attractive
 
mitchelt said:
I was watching the Food Network and DIY Channel and noticed that many if not all of the TV Commercials were beautiful* woman are shown, they are usually White, Hispanic (light skin) or Asian and if there happens to be a Black woman, they are super light skin.

I wonder how Black people feel about these commercials and if they notice it?

Do you also notice this?

* On a personal note, I don't find black woman attractive.
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Black actors who appear in commercials will be generally successful middle class people who likely portray generally successful middle class people. Black ghetto culture looks down on this (selling out to whitey, not being "black enough" I suppose), so there's likely not much incentive for this to happen.

In tech there are relatively few black engineers. Not, as the Al Sharpton/Jesse Jackson types are fond of saying, because tech is racist against blacks so they don't get hired, but because there actually just aren't that many black engineers.
 
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ImpulsE69 said:
Why is it that in movies and TV you see boobies and vag all over but rarely see penis?

I wonder how women feel about this and if they notice it?

Do you notice this?

*On a personal note, I do not find penis attractive
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The female body is a work of art.

The male body is....?
 
mitchelt said:
I was watching the Food Network and DIY Channel and noticed that many if not all of the TV Commercials were beautiful* woman are shown, they are usually White, Hispanic (light skin) or Asian and if there happens to be a Black woman, they are super light skin.

I wonder how Black people feel about these commercials and if they notice it?

Do you also notice this?

* On a personal note, I don't find black woman attractive.
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All I ever see is ginger kids in commercials. whats up with that?
 
Kadarin said:
In tech there are relatively few black engineers. Not, as the Al Sharpton/Jesse Jackson types are fond of saying, because tech is racist against blacks so they don't get hired, but because there actually just aren't that many black engineers.
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Funny you mention this.

When I was growing up. My brother and this black kid at school met in the computer lab while in Jr. High. They bought computer books, and eventually learned Assembly language on the C64 computer (this was 80's!). Self taught, taught each other along the way about game copy protection, ways to spoof it, etc.

They ended up founding a game cracking organization (think SkidRow or whatever) and hacked many games and released them out on BBS's at the time.

The black guy was a great engineer. During high school/into college, this kid and my brother went separate ways for whatever reason and stopped communicating.

10 years after they stopped talking and now we're talking mid 90's. I seen the black kid. He was working at a music store with his oiled up fro and all. Looking not gangsta-ish, but like Prince might have looked in the 80s (purple rain era).

Just found his linkedin... 🙂

Says he is working in a call center as a supervisor or phone agents. I suppose not so bad. Nothing related to programming or technology in his job history outside of running reports out of systems.
 
Kadarin said:
Black actors who appear in commercials will be generally successful middle class people who likely portray generally successful middle class people. Black ghetto culture looks down on this (selling out to whitey, not being "black enough" I suppose), so there's likely not much incentive for this to happen.
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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.
 
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QueBert said:
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.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acting_white

To some blacks, they dont give a crap what ghetto blacks think of them for "acting white". However, it is foolish to believe this concept doesn't exist and how influential it is to some who truly wish to have the support of the ghetto community/culture.
 
QueBert said:
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.
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The black actor who is offered work will almost certainly accept the work, and there certainly are exceptional black people like those you mention above. My point is that when growing up, many never become people who get offered work because they instead tend to fit into black ghetto culture.
 
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.
 
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