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"TV commercials are definitely excluding white men."

I get catalogs in the mail from Pier 1, and although I rarely if ever see black people in Pier 1, the models in the ads are now about 50/50 black and white, including black males. I haven't seen any white males in recent catalogs, if ever, and I don't think I have never seen a black male in a Pier 1 store.

As for TV ads, the pandering to blacks is self-evident: there are about 30-40% blacks (or more) in some ads, and they all live in upscale neighborhoods and drive upscale cars.

White males, when they appear at all, are often portrayed as clueless or goofy, and need to have things explained to them by their wives or children. If it is a white male doing a voice-over, the voice is increasingly namby-pamby in tone (Honda and Subaru are among the worst).

One of the most pathetic ads is - I think - for Discover cards, and depicts two young Asian females talking jive and doing black-style dance moves.

I avoid Cheerios for their hip-hop / rap garbage. I avoid it, most of the time (unless it’s a ridiculous sale and that’s rare). I did get one box recently because it was $1.49 (short term prep).

The shame of it is, they had an “a capella” black group. It was the best commercial of the bunch and they only ran it a short time.

For similar reasons, I have not bought a single Kit-Kat since they went with Chance the Rapper. It showed the pathetic mom having her kid look up to this guy.

Somebody posted some of his “lyrics” once. I shan’t, but you can probable guess what it was like.