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The Racial Content of Advertising
American Thinker ^ | 27 Mar, 2025 | Jeffrey Folks

Posted on 03/27/2025 5:29:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Dozens of ads depict whites in a demeaning manner and blacks as their superiors in intelligence and ability.

In an advertisement currently running on TV, a young white male kneels on his front lawn, trimming the grass one blade at a time with a nail clipper. Next door, a slightly older black male sits comfortably on his porch, scanning his automated payroll accounts with an air of confidence and superiority as he looks askance at his foolish neighbor.

In another ad, a large, middle-aged black woman dances and sings her way through the supermarket aisles, waited upon entirely by whites. At one point she stands still, looking doubtfully at a middle-aged white male who has taken a break from mopping the floors. In the end, she breezes out of the store, her cart filled by whites employees overjoyed to serve her.

In yet another ad, two young girls are selling something like Girl Scout cookies — one using a payment app and another relying on cash. The black girl, who uses the app, has sold her entire wagonload of goods before the other has sold much of anything. At the end, the black girl wheels her wagon off with a baseball glove and ball inside (indicating she is headed out to play), looking back with a knowing smile at her less clued-in white neighbor.

These are just a few of the dozens of ads now airing that depict whites in a demeaning manner and blacks as their superiors in intelligence and ability.

“Racial superiority” was once regarded as immoral if not criminal, but now it is out in the open, with blacks consistently depicted as more capable than whites. Nearly every medical doctor in the media is depicted as a black male, a throwback to Dr. Huxtable

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: leftism
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To: MtnClimber
I haven't had broadcast TV running in my home since 2000. I'm exposed to it on restaurant TV screens on occasions and it remains something that I can nothing about. I'm confident the advertisers don't miss my business because their content is designed to make white males look stupid. Who needs that kind of crap?

I do listen to the local Fox news FM radio affiliate via the radio station's app. Top of the hour, I listen for 5 minutes. Any more and I'm hearing whining about being a black or latino getting a home appraisal for $80,000 less than comparable properties in the neighborhood or LGBTQ whining about missed promotions because of "who we are". The leftist ads packing space between the news and next scheduled program are nauseating.

81 posted on 03/27/2025 9:44:16 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: JimRed

Having assholes in my living room annoyed me so I cut cable 15 years ago.


82 posted on 03/27/2025 9:48:30 AM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: brownsfan
It seems to me lots of whites have been taught to hate their race, and their country.

I just encountered one of those on an FB set of replies. A self-loathing, whining white liberal female. She would be fine supporting extermination of all whites. She's all-in on hating America too. She wasn't alone. Other's (whites) were supporting her position.

Seeing this on a daily basis makes it easier to accept my short remaining time on the green side of the lawn. I had hoped for a pleasant retirement. I worked hard to fund it. I'll be getting the Charlie Brown pulled football experience instead.

83 posted on 03/27/2025 9:53:22 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: cgbg

My bank has the same. By going to the log-off page to log-in, I’ve managed to evade their five minute video of happy black family with child playing with food. Don’t want to see that white, black or other.


84 posted on 03/27/2025 9:58:22 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: cgbg

My bank has the same. By going to the log-off page to log-in, I’ve managed to evade their five minute video of happy black family with child playing with food. Don’t want to see that white, black or other.


85 posted on 03/27/2025 9:58:22 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: 1Old Pro
The mixed race couples ads are pretty much the norm. Not sure if that is an accurate reflection of society.

But it is common enough that it is no longer shocking or of great concern.

86 posted on 03/27/2025 10:04:58 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE fSPEECH! )
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To: MtnClimber

Try watching Netflix. Same s_-t.


87 posted on 03/27/2025 10:45:21 AM PDT by RacerX1128 (Cornered in CA)
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To: Blurb2350

In other words it’s a certain despicable portion of WHITES that are displaying whites, especially white males as second class morons.

That’s where our hatred should be focused on.


88 posted on 03/27/2025 11:34:57 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you i9s how they. control you. )
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To: MtnClimber

I dont care.

It’s the stupidity of the commercials that drive me nuts.

I’ll don’t buy stuff advertised as if I’m stupid.

That cookie selling app commercial for example. I’d bet the cash girl would sell out first. I guarantee that many people don’t pay that way.


89 posted on 03/27/2025 11:40:04 AM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Alberta's Child

I can.

1) Crap

2) Mega Crap


90 posted on 03/27/2025 11:40:55 AM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Dalberg-Acton

I’ve seen some.


91 posted on 03/27/2025 11:42:12 AM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: old school

Remember they target them to populations.

I’m sure there are more blacks in the ones shown in black markets.

Same with Hispanic and Asian.

Visit So Cal. Most commercials have Hispanics in them.


92 posted on 03/27/2025 11:47:40 AM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: old school

Oh, you know that.


93 posted on 03/27/2025 11:48:00 AM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: MtnClimber

“In an advertisement currently running on TV, a young white male kneels on his front lawn, trimming the grass one blade at a time with a nail clipper.”

Here in MA i had a moonbat next door neighbor around ten years ago, she was a clone of Elizabeth Warren in both looks and that crazy spastic nature of hers.
Her electric lawn mower broke one day and she resorted to cutting her lawn with a pair of scissors.
I had a john Deer riding mower and offered to cut her lawn for free.
Woulda took like 5 minutes but she refused because the mower ran on gasoline....like the Volvo she had parked in her driveway.


94 posted on 03/27/2025 12:13:55 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: catnipman

LOL!! SO true.


95 posted on 03/27/2025 12:40:27 PM PDT by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

“I notice cruise ship ads don’t have blacks.”

NOPE
A new Royal Caribbean ad has a Irish Looking girl with a dark Nigerian looking guy/lover having fun.
I was a bit surprised to find RC advertising to the same group that are causing all of the havoc and problems with Carnival including ruining there reputation.

Like Spirit and Frontier airlines i will never consider a Carnival Cruise after what i’ve seen and read over the past many years.


96 posted on 03/27/2025 1:08:16 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: mowowie

i find it personally embarrassing when i misplace Their, There, and they’re..


97 posted on 03/27/2025 1:14:24 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Jumper

Curiously, I don’t remember them at all.

But, I grew-up in California, so there was much I was unfamiliar with from the Mid-west and East.

And, there were things, popular in Southern California, which were unfamiliar to Nor-Cal residents.


98 posted on 03/27/2025 1:20:13 PM PDT by old school
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To: rlmorel

It seems that pushing DEI over merit would be a detriment to Van and Blacks Investors.
frigging bizarre..


99 posted on 03/27/2025 1:32:33 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: ComputerGuy

I met two over the course of 53 years in that workplace. One was an immigrant from Rhodesia, the other from Chicago. Both were OK.


100 posted on 03/27/2025 2:20:11 PM PDT by GingisK
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