Posted on 04/19/2019 8:36:21 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
“Wonder if these idiots care that my forebears likely were slaves under the Romans...is that far enough back for them?”
As a descendant of the ancient Romans I would say thanks to your ancestors for their contribution to our great empire, but YOU ain’t gettin no reparations.
I never saw this commercial air, and only saw it as part of this controversy - what were they thinking? It is a stupid marketing pitch to light-skinned/partially white black customers, and it is truly bizarre; they need a new marketing department.
>>The ad appeared to show a white man trying to convince a black woman in what appears to be in the antebellum South to head North with him to get married.
Apparently some descendants are angry that great great grandmama married a white dude and their bloodline purity is tainted?
Good grief
>>Too many people now are stuck in a rut, and the truly sad thing is they are stuck in a rut over things that happened to their ancestors!!
Stuck in a rut over things they WISH had happened to their ancestors so they can talk about being put upon and have justified eternal resentment
Was reading about the song “strange fruit” that got enshrined by the US government. Neither the song’s socialist composer or Billie Holiday ever witnessed a lynching (although Hollywood revised history to say she did).
Horrible things were done by horrible people for horrible reasons. But Democrats aren’t forever stigmatized for it, instead “white people” are. And if you mention that white people were also lynched, well then you’re just a racist and denier.
Every company pitches the notion of interracial couples these days.
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search white couple
I understand that; it is part of a social engineering function (and generally falls flat). I have no objection to that at all; it is TV, not reality (see all the dopey white guys in commercials today?).
The context of the commercial in question is bizarre, and while I wouldn’t protest it, I can understand why some people wouldn’t like it. Frankly, it could be construed as offensive to Southern whites just as much as blacks for what is shows; it is just a really strange context for what they’re selling.
Oh, for heaven’s sake. Those ads don’t glorify slavery. They acknowledge that those who came before us had lives worth remembering.
I haven’t seen the ad and am not buying the product.
I do recall a PBS program where historians/archivists/genealogists/appraisers take an object from some viewers and piece together a broader story about the item.
It was something that aired following Antiques Roadshow.
A black woman was surprised to learn that her great grandmother (I think that’s the branch) was not a slave, was born a free woman, and even purchased and owned a nice sized home in which she raised her family.
Much as Elizabeth Warren’s claim of being “part Indian” did not pass scrutiny (in spite of “family lore”).
Much as “Trump colluded with Russia” did not pass scrutiny.
Rather than accept the findings, say “oh”, and move on it’s learning Santa didn’t exist or the stork didn’t bring ya.
I never saw the ad until seeing it as part of this story; I can see both sides of it, and don’t care if it runs or gets pulled. It just doesn’t seem like a smart way to pitch this - and your example would seem like a much better way. Tell that story instead - or show living ancestors of a couple like that portrayed in the escaped slave story they depicted; I’d imagine that would have flown much better.
Never quite understood the anger over slavery. Wasn’t it just ‘some people doing some things’ back then?
Well said.
There are a lot of stupid commercials, probably do need new marketing people.
With reparations on the table, what a marketing bonanza for these type companies. I did it and am a one percenter. Where’s my money!?
“All the world is sad and dreary,
Ev’rywhere I roam.
Oh, darkies, how my heart grows weary,
Far from the old folks at home
Far from the old folks at home
Far from the old folks at home
Far from the old folks at home.”
The comments objecting to the ad make a good point. I think ancestry probably should have removed the it.
She has already received her reparations in the form of those genes
The violent version of the story ignores the many claims of romantic love between blacks and whites that also occurred. One of the early Jesuit presidents of Georgetown University from 1874 to 1882, Patrick Francis Healy, was born in slavery from a white Irish-American plantation owner and an enslaved African-American mother. His father purchased the freedom of his children and wife.
He grew up, served a hitch in the Navy, and became an athletics coach at a college in New England. He eventually married a white girl. They now have some fine kids. We enjoy having them visit when they're in our area.
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