When I was a kid Reggie Jackson was a great baseball player. That is exactly how my brother & I saw him. A ball player. Nothing more, or less.
These days however it is forced upon us to see people as white, black, brown, yellow, red... Have you listened to Willy T Ribbs (ex-racecar driver) talk these days? Its all about how poorly he was treated in his career. He wont let you see him as a racecar driver any longer. He wants to be seen as nothing more than a black victim as far as I can tell.
Listen to Oprah, or that weather man AL Roker etc., and pay attention when they ask them whats their favorite music, or actor perhaps. Their answer is always the same race. 100% of the time. But yet I know plenty of other race people who like Michael Jackson music, or Denzel Washington movies even though that person is not that race.
Jake at State Farm above is simple. As a white man I will buy product from vendors that I like. I don't care at the least if Reggie Jackson is their spokesman or Jay Leno. But, other races will simply not use a company that does not have a spokesman of their own race. So... Knowing that ~ companies like State Farm will slot in a new black spokesman knowing that I the white guy will not see the color, but that the other races do, and they will only give them business if the spokesman is their race (which means that by using a black Jake they get most all of the consumers).
Most every brand has bent to this new rule. Look at all of the interracial couples on every commercial now. Jeeps, Restaurants, furniture companies, Insurance, medicine, it is an indoctrination that is being pushed on us even though it is a very small percentage of reality.
Over a period of 4 months it was concluded that while the African American population in America is only 12% they were in 94.3% of the commercials. Black males are only 5% of our population yet were in 89.7% of the ads. White males make up the largest segment of our population, yet were only in 4% of the TV commercials! In most of those cases they are in their 60's to 80's and were pushing medication for debilitating diseases, reverse mortgages (Tom Selleck) or Medicare plans. While this study had many, many more alarming facts, one that really stands out is that each and every ad for new cars featured a woman driver except for Lincoln. Only one ad included a white male passenger and he is not behind the wheel, a black woman is. In the commercials for automobiles there were more black women drivers than white women. Again, Europe was the exception here. Mercedes and BMW had no visible drivers. They showed the cars cruising highways with license plates that were obviously European but never allowed a view where the driver was visible. I find that very interesting. Finally, Hispanic, Asian & Middle Eastern men outnumbered white men 4 to 1, but still were nowhere near the number of black men in TV commercials.
My questions:
Who casts these commercial shoots? Who directs the directors to cast certain ‘types’? How did this trend in commercials happen all at the same time? at federal government direction? Conspiracy? What is going on here?
