Really?
Apparently, Pepsi's Super Bowl ad with the black couple that ends with a blond running by them and turning the husband's head is racist, according to some liberal journalists. Why? Because the wife was a control freak, and that apparently shines a bad light on all black women, and is therefore racist.
I'm floored. Is this where we are as a society? I thought we were long past this. How exactly does this one woman represent all black women? Only if you're looking for it, I suppose.
So I have some questions:
- Does a white domestic terrorist in the latest blockbuster movie reflect all white men?
- Does a Latino corrupt cop on the latest cop show reflect all Latinos?
- Does an Asian hooker on the latest TV drama now reflect all Asians?
- Does the white mother/wife in that stupid photo-cropping/editing commercial who obviously thinks very low of her entire family now reflect all white moms?
And more to the contextual point of this specific commercial, when I first read the headline that the commercial might be racist, I immediately thought they must be alluding to the fact that when the blond was HIT IN THE HEAD with a full can of Pepsi, that it might be a WHITE person raising the issue that it shouldn't be "funny" that a black woman nailed a white woman with a weapon, then ran away from the scene. But that's apparently not the issue. The issue is the fact that this black woman portrays a controlling wife.
Amazing. Someone please enlighten me. Again, I thought we - as a society - were WAY past this.
