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Cheerios Brings Back Interracial Family For Its First Ever Super Bowl Ad
Business Insider ^ | Jan. 28, 2014 | Aaron Taube

Posted on 01/29/2014 6:24:29 PM PST by Bon of Babble

Cheerios' first ever Super Bowl ad will star the same interracial family that sparked an online firestorm when the cereal brand included it in an ad this past May.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


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KEYWORDS: cheerios; generalmills; generalmillssir; superbowlads; superbowlofcheerios
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To: kaehurowing

Could much of the speech have gone into the container on the right while the speaker could go into the container on the left?

http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3115281/posts?page=18#18


41 posted on 01/29/2014 7:27:45 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind, but now I see...)
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To: Bon of Babble

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.


42 posted on 01/29/2014 7:28:13 PM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: BwanaNdege
You got it.

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


43 posted on 01/29/2014 7:33:10 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Play the 'Knockout Game' with someone owning a 9mm and you get what you deserve)
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To: napscoordinator
I had to big bowls too

Really man? Really?

44 posted on 01/29/2014 7:42:03 PM PST by Bullish (America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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To: BenLurkin
As a white guy, I totally dig Stacey Dash

Or Vanessa Willams

Or Tara Setmayer (I love strong, SMART , women)


45 posted on 01/29/2014 7:43:51 PM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Ramius

Ever noticed in ads that the white guys are always made out to be the dummies while the minorities are always the intelligent ones?


46 posted on 01/29/2014 7:47:33 PM PST by Bullish (America should yank Obama like a rotten tooth before he poisons the entire body)
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To: Bon of Babble
Good people are good people. Bad people are bad people.

We're individualists, not collectivists. (Or at least should be)

47 posted on 01/29/2014 7:48:34 PM PST by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: capydick
I know....black women especially don't like the whitey beaches taken "their" men...

and I too missed the firestorm....

frankly, I am pleasantly surprised lately that black women or asian women have been featured with white men....which is the new in vogue social concept...

48 posted on 01/29/2014 7:52:01 PM PST by cherry (.in the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary.....)
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To: cynwoody

? I was talking about the ad . Black man / white woman relationships are pushed bigtime but not vice versa . Not against interracial marriage ( my wife is Japanese ) but hate the bias against white men .
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49 posted on 01/29/2014 7:53:04 PM PST by sushiman
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To: mountn man
Or Vanessa Willams

Yeah but use a good antivirus system to protect your disk.

50 posted on 01/29/2014 8:01:45 PM PST by fso301
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To: BwanaNdege
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...

51 posted on 01/29/2014 8:07:47 PM PST by cherry (.in the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary.....)
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To: Bon of Babble
I it had been Muslims in the commercial I'd have changed the channel and never bought Cheerios again, as it was, it was a commercial, and the kid reminded me of a friends niece. Don't see the problem.
52 posted on 01/29/2014 8:24:42 PM PST by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: sushiman

[ ? I was talking about the ad . Black man / white woman relationships are pushed bigtime but not vice versa . Not against interracial marriage ( my wife is Japanese ) but hate the bias against white men . ]

Maybe they don’t wanna offend the black folks who loathe the idea of a white man with a black woman.....


53 posted on 01/29/2014 9:09:02 PM PST by GraceG
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To: 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... ]

I noticed that over the last 20 years in hollywood, they keep picking all the "Gap Model" type actors instead of actors that look more like a decent cross section. Brock Peters was a GREAT actor!! I doubt they would pick him today based on hollywood being only for "looks" instead of acting ability. Most movies and shows these days have all the charm of a commercial with the perfect people with bland vanilla attitude...

I miss him in movies and such may he Rest in Peace.


54 posted on 01/29/2014 9:14:46 PM PST by GraceG
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To: Bullish
Ever noticed in ads that the white guys are always made out to be the dummies while the minorities are always the intelligent ones?

Except for the MetroPCS from about two years ago.

55 posted on 01/29/2014 9:55:45 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: mountn man

I’m probably showing my age, but I always liked Paula Kelly (Liz on Night Court).
Beautiful eyes, great dancer...


56 posted on 01/29/2014 10:00:09 PM PST by Exeter (A government that doesn't trust its people is a government that shouldn't be trusted.)
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To: mountn man

I remember my first schoolboy crush on Marilyn McCoo of The Fifth Dimension....


57 posted on 01/29/2014 10:03:16 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Exeter; dfwgator
As a young boy, the TV show "Julia" was a favorite.

Even then I knew Diahann Carroll was pretty.

I had a Julia lunch box and got called all types of names because of it.

58 posted on 01/29/2014 10:33:22 PM PST by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: mountn man
As a young boy, the TV show "Julia" was a favorite. Even then I knew Diahann Carroll was pretty.

Yep, I was right there with you.

59 posted on 01/29/2014 10:41:32 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: a fool in paradise

He said he came from a single mom family yesterday! Really? When? He was with gramma for about two of his first three years, and she was married. Then he was with mom in Indonesia, and - gasp - she was married. Then he when t back to grandma until he went away to college and grandma was still bleeping married.

He spent max one year as an infant with his unwed mom.


60 posted on 01/29/2014 11:49:35 PM PST by Yaelle
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