Cheerios ad featuring interracial couple sparks racist backlash

[mrveggieman]

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-styl...icle-1.1359690

[habsheaven]

Society is slowly changing but you will never get rid of all of this kind of IGNORANCE.

[JustAlex]

It's funny how racists think.

I watch this ad and only see a cute kid doing something cute.

Racists watch it and are outraged because they see a black man with a white woman.....as if there's anything inherently wrong with that.

It's a shame that people still think this way....but it's a product of their background.

The one thing I do know is that with every new generation, tolerance and acceptance is better and better.

[Star_Cards]

I hadn't seen the commercial prior to the talk about the issue. It's sad that people still have issues with different races dating. It's pretty common place in Indianapolis and would assume the same in most areas. It's also sad that they had the comments section of their youtube post shut down due top all of the racist comments although that's typically what happens on youtube comments.

as habs said, this change, but sometimes slowly.

[87sluggo]

The one thing I do know is that with every new generation, tolerance and acceptance is better and better.

True, but have you noticed the intolerance getting louder and even more extreme?

[Wickabee]

True, but have you noticed the intolerance getting louder and even more extreme?

Economic down times lead to periods of remission to extremism. Conservatism is usually the safer bet, but it's not always true.