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Originally posted by AXO Alum
And yes, I can PROUDLY say that when I see a group of "beautiful women" in an ad that I will say to myself "what a group of beautiful women" --- I will not say "oh, there aren't enough WHITE people in the group so they must be anti-white and I'm not going to shop there" -- I don't operate that way and its pretty sh*%%y that other people DO act that way, but then will be the first in the line that reads:
"SUE HERE - Please take a number and your lawsuit will be filed accordingly..."
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It isn't a bad thing that they act like that -- in fact, it's completely natural.
In my women's studies class, our professor put us through the following exercise: spend one entire day going through your normal activities and thinking how your race relates to how you perform each one. In other words, you should be thinking about how your race relates to watching TV, eating dinner, brushing your teeth, etc. The point of this experiment? Most of us white kids had a pretty hard time trying to think of how our race relates to, say, waiting at the bus stop. But the non-whites said the experiment was easy for them because they already go through life being aware of how their race relates to every little thing they do.
Basically, seeing a bunch of white women in a TV ad isn't going to surprise anybody because it's the status quo. But when you see something that goes against the status quo -- a similar commercial, only with black women -- you're going to take notice . . . especially if you fall into the group of people who are aware of how their race affects everything (i.e. minorities).
I think there are a whole hell of a lot of us white people out there, while we're usually not racist, take the priviledge of not having to worry about how our race affects things for granted. People of color don't have that priviledge.