Hi everyone.
Andrew here again, and I'm still pissed. Why? Well a few minutes before I wrote this post, I was scouring around the Internet looking for stuff to write about, and I happened to find this. A commercial for legendary breakfast cereal Cheerios. It features a little girl who talks with her mother (while she is white, the girl is of mixed race) about the Golden O's being good for your heart, as said on every box. Mom says yes, and the little cutie smiles. A little later, her father (who is obviously black) wakes up and stretches, only to find Cheerios all over his chest. He is puzzled, and calls "JAN!"
Seems cute, right? Well, here's the reason why I'm typing this in an angry mood. As the vid was released on the cereal brand's YouTube channel, some commenters decided to voice their honest-to-goodness opinion. And as I heard and read, they were honest, but not goodness. In fact, they were sad, horrible, inhumane comments by sad, horrible, inhumane people. Because of this, the image has 500 dislikes against 1600 likes. Some of the comments were that it was "disgusting" and made him/her "want to vomit". Apparently they have rules against love and Jungle Fever...and cooties. Other comments include references to Nazis, "troglodytes" and "racial genocide." (Sigh) It seems as if these idiots think that is a political agenda or social advancement or anti-anything going on here. It's just nice sweet family commercial with a light-hearted ending. Yet the morons think otherwise.
So why are we still in the 1800s? It's really stupid that some people find interracial relationship so taboo. It's even more stupid that it's happening in a YouTube vid in the form of a comment. You're fine with blacks being equal. You're fine with racier content on TV. You're even fine with a new TV show about a boy with a superhero alter ego...with female tendencies. But it's 2013, dammit, and you are still not fine with Interracial love? Seriously? Have you not watch "The Jeffersons" or But On second thought, don't do that. Anyway, to make a comment is one thing. To make a foolish, yet humorous one is another. But making racist comments about a sweet, surgary heartwarming advent about literal and metaphorical use of cereal being good for your heart is stupid, horrid, and just plain dumb. These people, even though they have the right to an opinion, they should keep that ship to themselves. It's one thing to comment on a black person doing anything (as stupid as it is), but commenting on a mixed race girl with a white mom and a black dad make you a goddamn fool in every sense of the word.
What do you think? go to the comments section or tell me on Twitter.
Now excuse me while I eat some Cheerios like a normal person; with some on my heart. See ya!
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