Mixed-race Cheerios commerical - why the hate?

LionelNashe

US Television tends to avoid showing interracial couples. If there's 10 characters in a film or programme, and 1 black man and 1 black woman in the group, they'll more than likely end up together. It's very cowardly writing. It's good of Cheerios to go against the norm.

mike65

On the UK telly it almost conspicuously the other way. Not that I disapprove (if only cos it must piss off the EDL/BNP) but there are an unlikely number of mixed race couples/families depicted in drama series/soaps across the water.

Oranage2

Jeez, in Ireland there'd be uproar if a cork girl was going out with a dub.

Nodin

Clandestine wrote: »

http://i.imgur.com/SKsNC.jpg

...there's a point a you wanted to make with that isn't there? Come along now...be brave and explain it.

Nodin

Oranage2 wrote: »

Jeez, in Ireland there'd be uproar if a cork girl was going out with a dub.

People take to the bed over such news.

se02orqua5xz9v

mike65 wrote: »

On the UK telly it almost conspicuously the other way. Not that I disapprove (if only cos it must piss off the EDL/BNP)

I don't understand. Why must it piss off the EDL?

Killer Wench

mike65 wrote: »

But the internet is full of whites gittin' it on with the blacks.. :pac:

Yes, but that's people usually going out and searching for that content. I post on a forum for Black women but there are many non-Black females who post on the site, and there have been multiple threads discussing interracial relationships. It happens. We all know that it does, but there is something different about a television commercial. On the internet, you guide your content, but on television, you turn on a program and then you have to sit through commercials. Commercials are rather imposing, and I imagine these closet racists feel that this commercial was an unwelcome imposition into their living room. It's like being forced to consume something that you chose to ignore previously.

Karl Stein

Racism saved my life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-JeJVf8CZI

mike65

Eliseo Slow Wrestler wrote: »

I don't understand. Why must it piss off the EDL?

Anyone who thinks the English Defence League is not actually the White English Defence League is a fool.

Ulysses Gaze

Nodin wrote: »

...there's a point a you wanted to make with that isn't there? Come along now...be brave and explain it.

I'll take a punt at this....maybe wrong but wtf.

'You are being brainwashed by da evil Jewz................................'

Or some nonsense like that.

old hippy

JD DABA wrote: »

Nasty comments on the internetz you say ??
Insults directed at Muricas negro population ??

I shall have to inform the chaps at encyclopedia drammatica

Yes, do tell us how you get on, won't you?

Isolt

I'm not surprised to see those comments on youtube, it's an easy platform for amateur trolls to practice on. I like the ad, it made me laugh when he woke up covered in cheerios.

Thankfully we are fairly indifferent to mixed relationships here in Ireland.

I'm white and my boyfriend is black and we (thankfully) haven't experienced any negative comments or attitudes so far anyway.

yore

Isolt wrote: »

I'm not surprised to see those comments on youtube, it's an easy platform for amateur trolls to practice on. I like the ad, it made me laugh when he woke up covered in cheerios.

Thankfully we are fairly indifferent to mixed relationships here in Ireland.

I'm white and my boyfriend is black and we (thankfully) haven't experienced any negative comments or attitudes so far anyway.

Ah heyor. Not even a

"good for you father. Good for you. Coming over here and taking our jobs and our wimmin' and acting like they feckin' own the place. Good for you"


actually that was the greeks. Inventing gayness and all.

yore

rainbowdrop wrote: »

I'm trying to think of an example of an ugly mixed race person, and I can't.

Prob a very shallow statement, but I don't care!!

Probably because you don't know any. and your frame of reference outside of your own circle would be limited to people you see "on da telly" so that's gonna be biased towards the lookers.

Sure everyone is "mixed" anyway! To some extent. Did ya learn nothing from The Commitments ?

Solair

What is it about YouTube comments in particular that seems to bring out some of the most vile hate on the web.

You see really nasty stuff under some of the most non-controvertial videos you could possibly think of.

darkdubh

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

Eddie Van Halen ?

How is he mixed race?Anyway mixed race people are just as likely to be ugly as any other ethnic group.Just look at Tiger Woods and Rio Ferdinand.

IvyTheTerrible

darkdubh wrote: »

How is he mixed race?

His mum was half Indonesian.

hatrickpatrick

Ham Wallet wrote: »

Not a fan of them personally

Cheerios or mixed race couples? :pac:

hatrickpatrick

With regard to the OP, the vast majority of those comments are very obviously trolls deliberately trying to inflame gullible eejits like your good self. Rule number 14 of the Rules of the Internet: "Do not argue with trolls. It means they win."

http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/030/662/rules.jpg.jpg

darlett

Oranage2 wrote: »

So where are mixed race people suppose to go?

Madagascar I think.

Irish Guitarist

Why anyone is surprised at anything that the idiots that inhabit YouTube have to say is beyond me.

Years ago I saw a video of a five or six month old baby 'playing' the guitar by moving his hand and inadvertently striking the strings of a guitar that someone was holding. The person that uploaded this video had obviously only meant her family and friends to see it but somehow it got a million views and attracted thousands of comments about how the baby was a crap guitarist and deserved to die for 'wasting their time'.

It was then then I discovered that the average YouTube commenter is a pimply teenage moron with too much time on their hands.

Pinkandick

Oranage2 wrote: »

So where are mixed race people suppose to go?

gl
Mixed-race there is no such thing it’s only a social construct. Don’t get bogged down there man in their madness, Like they classify people as mixed race so they can give credence to their hate of a future they will have no choice but to embrace…i.e new immigrants assimilating what else are we all supposed to do, they seem so thick they need a new outlook, bring on the immigrants because they will only help out with all the good stuff like nice food and nobody likes paying taxes but things have to run in an economy, Like paying back the bloody German’s. Everything makes sense here but what they want doesn’t make any sense at all. P.s any help with the mantra?

What a cute ad.

Oranage2

Pinkandick wrote: »

gl
Mixed-race there is no such thing it’s only a social construct. Don’t get bogged down there man in their madness, Like they classify people as mixed race so they can give credence to their hate of a future they will have no choice but to embrace…i.e new immigrants assimilating what else are we all supposed to do, they seem so thick they need a new outlook, bring on the immigrants because they will only help out with all the good stuff like nice food and nobody likes paying taxes but things have to run in an economy, Like paying back the bloody German’s. Everything makes sense here but what they want doesn’t make any sense at all. P.s any help with the mantra?

Not everything makes sense, take for example, your post.

Pug160

John Agard - Half Caste

Excuse me
standing on one leg
I’m half-caste.

Explain yuself
wha yu mean
when yu say half-caste
yu mean when Picasso
mix red an green
is a half-caste canvas?
explain yuself
wha yu mean
when yu say half-caste
yu mean when light an shadow
mix in de sky
is a half-caste weather?
well in dat case
england weather
nearly always half-caste
in fact some o dem cloud
half-caste till dem overcast
so spiteful dem don’t want de sun pass
ah rass?
explain yuself
wha yu mean
when yu say half-caste
yu mean tchaikovsky
sit down at dah piano
an mix a black key
wid a white key
is a half-caste symphony?

Explain yuself
wha yu mean
Ah listening to yu wid de keen
half of mih ear
Ah looking at yu wid de keen
half of mih eye
an when I’m introduced to yu
I’m sure you’ll understand
why I offer yu half-a-hand
an when I sleep at night
I close half-a-eye
consequently when I dream
I dream half-a-dream
an when moon begin to glow
I half-caste human being
cast half-a-shadow
but yu must come back tomorrow
wid de whole of yu eye
an de whole of yu ear
an de whole of yu mind.

an I will tell yu
de other half
of my story.

I'm not sure how well known that is but I discovered it a while back.

se02orqua5xz9v

mike65 wrote: »

Anyone who thinks the English Defence League is not actually the White English Defence League is a fool.

mike65 wrote: »

On the UK telly it almost conspicuously the other way. Not that I disapprove (if only cos it must piss off the EDL...).

The EDL was founded by Tommy Robinson aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. In the documentary Proud and Prejudiced, first aired on Channel 4 in 2012, Robinson stated the following, in response to David Cameron's 'state multiculturalism has failed' speech.

"David Cameron is wrong. Multiculturalism has worked. It hasn't failed. My Goddaughter is black. My niece is black. We live side-by-side, brothers and sisters. It hasn't failed. What's he on about? He doesn't know what he's talking about. Religion has failed."

I see nothing in that to infer that he would be 'pissed off' by depictions of mixed-race couples on TV.

old hippy

He's still a wrong 'un, that Tommy. As is anyone involved with the EDL.

c_man

Wait, so this isn't one of those threads were we'll post the clip of Bill Hicks saying advertisers should kill themselves? ok

Festy

Solair wrote: »

What is it about YouTube comments in particular that seems to bring out some of the most vile hate on the web.

You see really nasty stuff under some of the most non-controvertial videos you could possibly think of.

Stormfront members out in force no doubt.:pac:

BrensBenz

"OK guys, we need a new ad for Cheerios. Something to grab attention and make us money. Any ideas?"
"Uhh, yep. Whut about Cheerios being eaten by a mixed race family?"
"Oh, come on, Michael! The "I'm no fascist but.../ I'm no racist but.../ I'm so right-on" hoards will go ape!"
"Right, and the profile of Cheerios will go into orbit!"
"Mmmm, do you think they'll fall for it?"
"Oh yes, they always do."
"Thanks, Michael. Say "hello" to Mrs. O'Leary for us".