I’ve been wondering why there is a growing trend to show interracial and gay couples as if it is the norm in society. I have taken some notice of the companies that do this and wonder what market they are trying to reach with such a small audience. Yet, it seems important to them.
There are social engineering documents pushed by HR and legal on “fighting unconscious bias” that promote exactly this sort of thing.
http://cmsdr2.tcs.tulane.edu/equity/upload/UnconsciousBias.pdf
It explicitly states:
“9. Support projects that encourage positive images of persons of color, GLBT and women. Distribute stories and pictures widely that portray stereotype-busting images – posters, newsletters, annual reports, speaker series, podcasts. Many studies show that the mere positive image of specific groups of people can combat our hidden bias.
We live in a integrated neighborhood. I imagine it would be considered upper middle class. The neighborhood has been successfully integrated for the past 40 years. There just never was “white flight” in this neighborhood. We also have the lowest crime stats of any other neighborhood in our city.
That being said, we have quite a few interracial couples that live in this neighborhood.
As far as more black men and white woman couples, I did a quick accounting of the interracial couples we know and in our circle of friends/acquaintances, I think it’s almost 50/50 as far as white men with black spouse, versus black men with white spouse.
I also googled a couple “lists” and although I didn’t peruse the entire list, it looks like this list of celebrities with black spouses has mostly white men with black spouses (at least in the first 10 I looked at.)
http://pophitz.com/20-popular-white-celebrities-who-have-black-spouses/
As far as a demogrphic, depending on the area one lives in, I imagine the number of interracial couples vary greatly.
There's a big difference between those two things, inasmuch as there is absolutely nothing wrong with interracial heterosexual marriage.
The advertisers, in that case, are probably simply reflecting the modern day reality of the fact that interracial marriages, while certainly not the norm, are certainly becoming more and more commonplace.
Additionally, it seems possible that advertisers are also using such portrayals (interracial relationships) as an opportunity to to target multiple demographics simultaneously.
I actually think that portraying interracial marriages is generally a positive thing, and will hopefully help eliminate "old school" prejudices which, for instance, have no basis in Christian scripture, and which indeed are vestiges of historical bigotry.
I've had to deal with this in my own family, having a father who refused to accept my black girlfriend. My mother, being a stronger Christian, had no issue with it.
My father very recently went to his grave with this prejudice, which was one of his very few flaws. It caused a needless and painful gulf between him and myself (his oldest son) for the last several years of his life. And you can imagine how it made my girlfriend feel.
It's all about destriying the culture, values and norms of our society so it can be replaced by something else - something that serves the agenda of our elite masters.
The PC market is their target and government pressure is a spur.