Cheerios Commercial Featuring Mixed Race Family Gets Racist Backlash

[RockaFowler]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/31/cheerios-commercial-racist-backlash_n_3363507.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

An adorable Cheerios commercial featuring an interracial couple and their daughter generated such a strong racist backlash on YouTube that the comments section had to be closed.

The ad had received more than 1,600 likes and more than 500 dislikes as of Thursday evening.

Prior to the closure, the comment section had been filled "with references to Nazis, 'troglodytes' and 'racial genocide,'" according to Adweek.

[lame54]

1. Man - people really hate Cheerios

[kelliekat44]

2. Amazing! It sure is comforting to know that in the next 50 years mixed race couples will probably

out number the rest of the couples as nature takes its course.

[Freddie Stubbs]

3. You see a lot of commercials featuring black families, but

not that many with obviously mixed-race couples.

This is unfortunate, as there are an increasing number of interracial families.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. I honestly cannot comprehend the minds of about 30% of the population. The

ones that write that commercial 'makes them want to vomit'. The ones that say 'no to Obama-care' while getting their medical needs met by freeloading in ERs. The Boy Scout leaders pulling their kids out of scouting because 'they don't believe allowing gays is keeping the oath'.

[redqueen]

5. Oh it's just kids you know. Wacky teenagers. Just saying stuff for attention.

Racism is so not a problem anymore.



My family has been mixed race for generations. We like to mix it up.

I can't relate to people who think it is in any way unusual.

[Jennicut]

6. It's youtube. Almost all of the comments sections there devolve into utter crap.

I need a shower after reading the slime there. I try not to read many comments there anymore. It's not monitored too well, so that is what you get.

[uponit7771]

7. USA Ranks among most tolerating country on Earth, the 25% give the rest a really bad name here

[Sheepshank]

8. How many of these same people also sent messages to Clarence Thomas?

I think he would reach more people than a Cheerios ad.