I’ve seen that ad. It’s adorable (mostly because that little girl is adorable.) It didn’t even register with me that the couple was mixed race. It’s a family. Some people are idiots.
I’ve heard that adressed to black Hispanics more than once. The questioner would usually proceed to inform these guys that they couldn’t be Hispanic since they were black.
Huh. I now realize I’ve already seen that commercial a couple times. Never registered with me that there was anything to pay attention to, except that it’s cute.
I think Cheerios knows exactly how in/tolerant some people can be.
I’ll bet that’s why they made the commercial. With a simple ad like that their advertising budget has been supplemented times ten at least. You can’t buy the kind of publicity this kind of thing has created.
I think the commercial is cute, and I can’t remember the last Cheerios commercial I saw. Makes me want to buy it, instead of the generic cereal.
Society will never change unless there is awareness and a push to make those that are bigoted realize that this, like everything else, is just normal life.
Now, I would also like some Cheerios. Good for them for standing up against racists and idiots.
I’ve been asked that in those words about myself and my daughter a ton of times. Rarely do people ask it in a different way.
It’s weird that a commercial with an interracial family causes such a stir when there have been many interracial families on TV shows for years and no one seems to be losing sleep over that.
It wasn’t so many years ago that commercials didn’t even have non-white people in them in the first place!
Has anyone here seen the movie “Things We Lost In The Fire”? It’s very good, although it wasn’t widely released, and stars David Duchovny and Halle Berry as a married couple (and yes, they do have some awfully cute kids). The racial issue isn’t addressed AT ALL, although I suspect that was because it wasn’t in the original script.
Yep, they even managed to plug into a lot of Tea Party groups during the last election, even a close relative that also was multiracial (!) swallowed the propaganda and sent me lot of those “White Genocide” memes during the last election, even then I traced the source to very racist sites, it is a ploy for racists that think they are clever, but they only demonstrate how retarded they are.