Wednesday, April 12, 2023
I had an discussion about the removal of black people from
product boxes, and whether or not the people depicted on them were real people,
as they turned out to be, although liberal media kept calling these racist
images, when they are not.
Everything these days is racist. Because it fits the racist
agenda woke people are selling, and story after story in media keeps selling
these one-time heroic black figures as token uncle toms, and the companies that
maintained these images for years as racists.
The whole gambit is bullshit.
The image of black in America has changed, and woke people
today refuse to admit the images reflect success stories of blacks achieving
something they could not previously achieve, but represented an image many
blacks no longer can tolerate.
We have become too sophisticated to want to see a black
woman on the box of a pancake product or one on syrup or on the rice was eat –
even though back then, black people did most of the shopping and it was a good
idea to show a successful black person on the product they might be buying.
This is not racist. We see it today with everything sneakers
and sports jerseys, products often made by slave labor overseas, not representing
successful blacks.
Now, we get Bud Light, and you have to wonder if down the
road, in some more enlightened time, people will be outraged by putting the
image of a transgender on the can, the way some are outraged about blacks on
boxes of pancake batter.
It is the same exploitation, each company looking to attract
business by exploiting the image they think will accomplish that. When will be
remove black faces from products that straight hair or lighten skin? Are these
not also racist? When will we remove the sport stars from cereal boxes?
Admittedly, the image portrayed on some of these is out of
touch with how modern blacks (and their liberal woke supporters) see them. But
how much worse would it be if these companies actually portrayed some of the successful
blacks of today, the rap thugs who rant out anti-white racists music, or the
exploited black women who now grace every advertising market in the corporate attempt
to do what the companies did back at the turn of the century.
If the images of those on those boxes is racist, isn’t every
advertisement using a black face to sell a product also racist?
This points to the folly of media which goes after some
companies, while using black faces on their sites to sell more modern products,
and call it enlightened?
A google search shows just how pervasive this modern day
racism as become, the need to have a black face on a product to sell products
to a black audience, and yet, these same media outlets are screaming about the
racism of companies who did the same thing a century ago.
Will we someday wake up and find the advertising we see
today as racist, too.
The fact is nobody wants to admit that there were successful
black people prior to the civil rights movement, and that blacks can succeed in
a white society without the benefit of woke media and woke racists protesting.
At what point do we stop? Was the use of a native American
in the 1960s to protest litter along our nation’s highways racist, too?
Or the use of Asians to sell products to Asians or Hispanics
to Hispanics.
The fact that the black faces on older products no longer
fit the image woke wants us to buy of who black people are, doesn’t make those
products racist, it makes them out of date.
But in a woke society, anything woke says is racist must be
racist, even when it’s not.
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