In Our Faces Again

Yahoo steps up.

I always want to give kudos when the mainstream media portrays inter-ethnic relationships as normal and not worthy of making a big deal over, so today I have to give props to Yahoo.

Today on their main page they used the above picture for an article on love at first sight.

Good for you Yahoo.

Yahoo is a major web portal and many millions will see this picture. That whoever at Yahoo made the decision to use this picture is a sign that they saw no problem with the composition. And much like the Dentyne Pure commercial on television that I wrote about a while back, I know there will be some who are bothered by the depiction of “race mixing.” But it is another step in the direction of sending the message that relationships like these are not only becoming more and more common, but also that they are the way the world is.

So again, kudos to Yahoo.

Dentyne Shows Some Guts With This One

Way to go Dentyne. This took guts.

Man I’m loving the guts of the Dentyne people to put out a commercial like the one they did for Dentyne Pure. If you haven’t seen the spot it starts out featuring an African-American guy in full lip lock with what appears to be a White woman (though it is possible she is a light-skinned Black or Hispanic woman. But I don’t think so).

OMG!

That took some guts from them. While I’ve seen commercials before that show inter-ethnic relationships, very very few are as in your face as this one. I love it! And as I suspected when I first saw it, when I looked around the Internet to see reactions, the racists are up in arms with some very ugly comments about the spot and what they see as propaganda in favor of “race-mixing.”

Get over it people. I hope we see more companies with the guts to show this kind of spot. It’s a beautiful thing. Catches you off guard at first because we’re so unused to seeing it straight up like that, but then you see it for what it is, an ad that simply shows what’s going on for more and more people out there.

I gottta go get me some Dentyne Pure to show my support.

Here is the ad.