[BwanaNdege]

Has anyone else noticed the ad agencies preoccupation with very light skinned black females, all with Shirley Temple hairdos?

Why no women who might pass for a Native Black African? “African-American” male models & actors in commercials are similar, but at least without the Shirley Temple hairdo.

I guess if white American males get stuck with metro-sexual pajama-boy types as our representatives in ads, it is only fair that African-American women get a heavily tanned 20-something Shirley Temple as their representative.

[VeniVidiVici]

You got it.

Cheerios next Black "woman" to appear in an ad:

[cherry]

lets all be honest....the media comglomerate is very racist in that they only really featured light skinned blacks or at least those with not prominent noses or lips....

Yaphat Kotto is the only really black man I can think of that really has African features....and its worse for the women...the black women are always light skinned with petite features, and always, always slender...