3 posts tagged “black”
This commercial came on during the Super Bowl this past Sunday:
Coincidentally, the other night (prior to the Super Bowl), M pulled up this link. The worst ad, by far, was this one*:
Asian folks are severely underrepresented and misrepresented in media. The commercial during the Super Bowl ain't helping much.
Hey. Media. How about we have an Asian/Mixed/Black/etc. person on TV without it being about an Asian/Mixed/Black person on TV? I'm sure it's hard, but I shouldn't damn-near piddle my pants when I see a Mixed couple on TV. If there's one desensitization I'd like to get from my TV, it's the whole race thing.
Now, I'm not so naive as to think that stereotypes aren't real. I don't live in some monochrome world, and I don't want to. BUT, stereotypes are kinda something that the group being stereotyped gets to have for themselves. While stereotypes overall kinda make me nervous, I know they're there.
To an extreme: the N-word, while not a stereotype, is just NOT ok for people who aren't Black to say it. It's Black folks' word. Asian folks doing Asian stereotypes is for Asian people to do; it's not for whoever did that commercial to put on blast during the Super Bowl.
And this brings us back to underrepresentation of Asian people in media. What would the backlash be if commercial had monkies, speaking Ebonics, typing on a keyboard made of watermelon rinds? Yeah. Jesse Jackson would be ALL over it. It's the SAME thing (if you beg to differ, please, let me know. It'll be interesting to put you in your place about this.)
So, this commercial was in poor taste and I blame whoever made the commercial, whoever paid for the commercial, whoever approved the commercial, etc. etc. etc.
*youtube automatically has tags that it prefills into vox. I had to delete the tags, they were so bad (ie. oriental, rasbelly, etc. Sheesh.)
1. Vote. Seriously. Don't say anything to me or to anyone if you're not voting.
2. Social injustice based on race is effed up. But don't expect Obama to campaign with the slogan, "Free Mumia. Vote Obama." It's not going to happen. Oh, and instead of putting the weight on HIM to do it, why don't you demand (via communication) your local representatives to make a change. Same with New Orleans. Same with the Jena 6. Let go of your victim mentality ... I know it's going to be hard. Do it though. Change doesn't happen by folks just talking about wanting that change in angry voices - you've got to penetrate a system that has, for the most part, misserved you. They ("THEY" - THE MAAAAN) counts on you being too scared to make a difference. THEYYYYY count on you being too scared or too proud or too gangsta to vote. So, vote. Write letters. Tell your friends to vote. Etc.
3. Before selecting Obama cus he's black, get to know the candidates and their stances. Look. Someone made it easy. Try to picture a president that's good for the country. That's a little much to ask. But that's why Bush is in office. His folks voted for him cus they felt he'd make a better America for THEM. And it worked. For THEM.
4. OBAMA IS MIIIIIXED. Hella mixed. From his book, "...my father looked nothing like the people around me — that he was black as pitch, my mother white as milk — barely registered in my mind." Get the EFFF over him being a potential BLACK president. Quit making it a racial issue. YOU are creating a divide. A divide that is, granted, largely less severe than what happened during slavery and the period that sparked the civil rights era, but a cripling divide nonetheless.
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