Free Republic

One wonders just who at BBDO New York decided to create a Proctor & Gamble ad campaign where black adults are explaining what racism is to their children? As a black parent, I never sought to prepare my sons for a racist world. I did address circumstances as they arose and my sons saw how it was handled, so with that I wonder how these people decided they were equipped to lecture the nation's blacks how to not only address racism but how children should be told about it.

...Beginning today, Amazon plans to feature one original short film each week in a prominent spot on its home page for the next five weeks -- all commissioned by Amazon and available for free downloading by the site's visitors. The four-to-seven minute movies will star a variety of Hollywood actors in fictional stories fashioned loosely around a theme Amazon describes as "karmic balance;" characters, in essence, learn valuable life lessons.... Instead of a traditional advertising hard sell, the movies mark the escalation of an effort by Amazon to provide unique online content free of charge to its customers, some of...