Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Race in TV commercials

I stopped and really looked at the races in commercials on tv during shows.
1. the majority of the people in them were white.
2. All the car commercials I've seen always have white people in them.
3. One ad for like coke or something had a white man at a bar, the bartender was black and most everyone else in the background was white. Was it really a coincedence the worker was black? Why couldnt a black man go out and spend some money?
4. Heidi Klum's red dress coke ad, mostly white woman, one black woman in the front, maybe a asian woman in the second row? I feel like a lot of these ads feel that if they put in one person of color then their off the hook and can say we incuded different races! But really?
5. Verizon ads are pretty good with the multiracial people, although many times there are like thousands of people on the screen so it doesnt count as a leading role.
6. Just most of the ads incorporate some different races than white, but most of the talking and leading roles go to white people.
7. Its to bad, hopefully we can keep heading in the right direction, even if its slow
8. Intel had a commercial with a middle eastern man leading the role as a famous guy (co inventor of USB) everyone in the office wanted a peice of, and i thought that was cool. So often its all about the black and white people, but of course there are other races!!!!
9.I noticed all the hands in commercials (like apple) are white hands, pushing open laptops and holding coffee cups, simple stuff like that, but the hands are always white.
10. Almost all the ads featuring a "hot" woman, are always white woman, who says other races arent beautiful too!
Oh boy

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