I don’t know what the racial bias in advertising accomplishes.
But, I remember a time when there were no “colored” people in television commercials at all!
Except when I was a child, it didn’t effect my purchasing decisions whatsoever.
I’ll try something new, advertised on TV, if I think it has some utility, I don’t care who sells it.
You probably remember those chocolate covered marshmallow candy bars, called Black Babies (actually I think it was much worse and it was called N****** Babies) from the early 60s. I saw them in Elder Berman’s stores in Dayton Ohio growing up. They had a sterotypical picture of a little black girl and boy with big white eyes bugging out of their heads in what can only today be described as KKK comedy wrappers. I was probably in first or second grade and I knew this was SOOO WRONG but laughed like crazy at them. My mom was not amused and told me to cut it out. But like a fart in an evalator a kids’ gotta laugh. Those candy bars did not survive 1964.
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.
Oh, you know that.