Wait…you’re not a pygmy?
I kinda think they banked on this backlash.
Like I said in post #31, they can’t buy this kind of publicity!
It seems to go poorly for you, facts-wise; your own cites make you look facts-foolish.
Your first link, to health revelations.com, doesn’t at all support your contention that Cheerios have any added sugar. In fact, as runner pat points out, it only mentions Cheerios as a descriptive when talking about a completely different cereal by a different manufacturer.
Your second link, to a report from Environmental Working Group, points out on page 11 that Cheerios are only 3.6% sugar.
Are you ready to admit that you were wrong, or should we all just adjust our opinion of you now?
Cracked.com has an excellent article deconstructing the whole dust-up over this ad today: Why the Cheerios Racism Controversy Was Bad Journalism.
The facts do indeed support the claim that regular cheerios has the lowest level of sugar. But, in general (i.e. most cereals) are sugar coated as per study. Devil’s in details so, yeah, I do admit.
The only thing I have to say for myself is that I was coming from a general “don’t eat cereal” stance so I could have played it differently to make a point. Needless to say my kids don’t eat cereal.
I got a kick out of this line from the article:
Ha, I was right. The dad in the commercial is played by Charles Mailk Whitfield. It was driving me crazy where I had seen him before! Agent Hendrickson from Supernatural!
That’s how interracial couples are generally dealt with in most other Western countries. When you see an exception, they’re using the interracial bit (often combined with “immigrant”) as one of the legs of the story.
Bumping this because the family is back in a new ad for the Super Bowl.
And it’s better than the first. 
That little girl is the most adorable girl on television. And the mother’s face . . . classic. I love this little cereal family. Cheerios needs to do more ads with them. 
Oh, yeh. Mom’s face in the last shot is just priceless. 
Heehee. Cute commercial.
Of course, even though we were all thinking it and it is actually what happened before (see: the OP of this thread), MSNBC got raked over the coals for pointing out that right wingers will go crazy over the new Cheerios ad.
They jumped the gun, now none of us can say it.
Aye, it made the commercial! A terrific setup for the puchline of that “O RLY?” face.
Re: The OP.
I don’t know how many times I saw that commercial before someone pointed out that it was a mixed-race family. I hadn’t noticed. (I once worked with an Okinawan woman for two years before I noticed she was Asian – after she mentioned it. I just thought she was hot.)
My beef with the original commercial is how they didn’t show the mom and dad in the same room, like the sight of them together would be too much. And even in this new one, they never show their faces together. But at least they aren’t in separate rooms anymore.
Remember that series of coffee ads, for Taster’s Choice? Maybe this family will be part of a continuing series as well.
Why not? What’s the downside, when it’s clear that anyone who makes a fuss over it is, practically by definition, someone to be ignored?
I usually wait till I’ve been chatting a few minutes before asking"May I ask what your ethnic background is?. Am I being unknowingly rude or racist in asking this question?