Kids Shown Interracial Cheerios Commercial — Have No Idea Why It’s Controversial

[Fearless]

Twelve children were filmed watching the controversial Cheerios commercial that featured an interracial couple as parents of a bi-racial daughter. The commercial drew intense anger from so many people because of their attitudes on race that Cheerios had to close and delete comments on YouTube.

“Prior to the closure, the comment section had been filled “with references to Nazis, ‘troglodytes’ and ‘racial genocide,’” according to Adweek,” the Huffington Post reported just days after the ad was posted to YouTube. Today, it has had almost four million views.

The children in this video, aged seven to 13, were asked several questions about the commercial, then asked why it made some people upset.

Not one of them had any idea. They literally had to be told why. And when they were told, they were angry, upset, thought the race-based responses to the video were stupid, and wrong.

http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/watch-kids-shown-interracial-cheerios-commercial-have-no-idea-why-its-controversial/news/2013/07/16/71158

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[leftyohiolib]

1. that'sgood let's keep it that way

[idwiyo]

2. k&r

[lame54]

3. Awesome video - "What is this, the 1950's"

[FiveGoodMen]

4. "You've got to be taught before it's too late

Before you are six or seven or eight
To hate all the people your relatives hate
You've got to be carefully taught."

Otherwise, you might grow up NOT to be a bigot!