The one for me that sticks out was the GEICO “Do people do dumb things with smart phones”....All of these twenty-something white guys looking like idiots, while a black woman looks at them with contempt.
Reminds me of a commercial I saw about a bunch of idiot white guys camping out in a store parking lot to be first in line when it opened. From inside the store, a black female shopper looked at them with contempt. SHE was smart enough to know that the store was open 24 hours.
Then there's the one with a dumb white male and a black couple. The black couple are attractive and well dressed. Both the white guy and the black couple have the same camera, but the stupid white guy had paid more because he bought his from the wrong store. They're all standing on a cliff trying to take pictures, and the idiot white dude trips and tumbles down the cliff. The black couple make no move to help him but just shake their heads at his stupidity and go on taking pictures.
I'm sure we've all seen similar ads. An alien who monitored our commercials would be convinced that all blacks are brilliant and hardworking, while whites are either criminals or clumsy dumb doofuses. Yet still, blacks manage to complain that commercials are racist.