There are so many commercials out there that are just as you describe. Perhaps my "favorite" is one for college planning or some such. Nice suburban living room, large group of up-scale parents gathered around. Everyone is concerned about financial planning and saving for college. Turns out no one knows how to plan their finances. No has has started doing any savings.
Wait! That's not quite accurate! There is a black couple over there on the couch! Yes! They've taken the intiative -- they've been saving for years. Easiest thing in the world for them. They know how to do it, and they are very responsible and on top of their finances. All the dumb white people stare at them with puppy dog eyes and admire their wisdom for hiring the right financial planning firm.
Now, of course black people can be financially responsible. But if the commercial featured dumb, scared black people in awe of the smart white people who have deep knowledge of financial planning, people would howl about the stereotype. But, reverse the colors, and there's no problem. Well, I have a problem. The TV pushes propaganda that whites, especially white males, are helpless idiots who need to be helped by their social superiors.
“The TV pushes propaganda that whites, especially white males, are helpless idiots who need to be helped by their social superiors. “
I believe the term “social superiors” is a code word for “community organizer”.
I work at a medical school and the hospital decided to hire a NY advertising firm to tout our superior knowledge. Yep, you guessed it, the “Doctor” advising the dumbass cracker is a young, handsome, obviously highly intelligent black guy. Of course all use old guys wanted to meet this new young black doctor on our faculty because none of us had ever met him. So the incredibly highly paid bureaucrats had to explain to us how insensitive we were being to ask for truth in advertising.
Of course we said maybe if they used one of the many local advert firms instead of shipping our local money to a bunch of yankeee democrat gay types in NY maybe we would have had something akin to reality.
We, the old farts that made the Med Center what it is today, feel if we support the locals then maybe they will support us. But, then again, we are not highly paid, sensitive, administrative types who feel the locals should belly up to the bar during our fund raisers and support us because ?? why? Loyalty is a two way street, a concept lost when you get a MBA.