Cheerios Controversey

[Shadou]

Have you guys been hearing about the controversy over this cheerios commercial?

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Some of the comments that have been made about this commercial are ridiculous.

"So why is a Cheerios ad featuring a multiracial family causing a stir?

The commercial features a curly-haired brown girl inquiring of her Caucasian mother and African-American father about Cheerios' healthy attributes.

"Mom, Dad told me that Cheerios was good for your heart. Is that true?" she asks in the commercial, titled "Just Checking."

Adweek reports that at YouTube comments made "references to Nazis, 'troglodytes' and 'racial genocide' " before they were disabled.

As of Friday, most of the comments were supportive on the Cheerios Facebook page, like this one:

"Cheerios,

I just saw your commercial representing a beautiful mixed family, and I am appalled that hateful people are in such a frenzy over what is a modern family structure. I applaud you and your efforts to acknowledge families with an untraditional structure, and there needs to be more mixed race, minority, adoptive & non-heteronormative families represented in media. Thank you again, and even though I do not eat cereal (my brother loves Cheerios BTW) you can be sure that whatever future child I am blessed with, may probably be mixed heritage, and will be enjoying your product."




-CNN

 

[The Necromancer]

People are stupid. There's nothing to be mad about.

 

[Supreme x Uchiha]

I don't see what the problem is. That was actually a very cute commercial..

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no homo..

 

[The Big Boss]

their actors in two separate rooms with an actor child, mixed race actor family


apple jacks = here i come, i am cinny mon (cinnamon)

 

[FreakensteinAG]

Some people must still be living in the 50s.

Seriously, the people who were living in their prime back then are living their twilight years now. Who else is passing on this irrational hate?

There is no controversy, only loud troglodytes having something to say.

 

[Sabuto Hayashi]

I don't see any problem with it, tbh.

It's more cute than racist.

 

[Elio]

I see no problem whatsoever with this commercial. :|

 

[Shadou]

I see no problem whatsoever with this commercial. :|

I don't neither, unfortunately we have dummies that do. smfh

 

[Chibiusa]

Ppl always get bold with comment on the Internet. None of them would ever say that racist crap in public. That's why ppl think racism is dead. Ppl only show their true colors when they're anonymous.

I love the commercial. So cute lol

 

[Itachi Minato]

Most people on youtube talk shit all the time

 

[Stencil]

Christians 1 - 0 Atheists.

No but seriously, this is ridiculous...

 

[Oneandonlycopyninja]

I heard about the criticism too as it pisses me off. There is nothing wrong with a multiracial family. It's quite normal and you see it a lot on tv and living around you. So what the crap is with these people?!

 

[YokoKurama]

Coming from an African American father and a Caucasian mother I think it is nice to see more multi-racial families on commercials or tv shows. People still give me weird looks when I'm out with my kids but I don't pay them any mind. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it and I think people need to just move on and stop letting the past dictate them. I grew up with the understanding that all races are equal and it is something that I teach both my daughters, it is just sad that people are still so ignorant.

And I like Cheerios, just saying.

 

[Bananawolf]

I can't see why this is offensive, it's adorable.

 

[Jack Spicer]

Cocoa Pebbles 4 life.

 

[Aim64C]

This is CNN trying to create an issue where there isn't one.

0.001% of the population with access to the Internet can crop up and make racist comments by the hundreds of users (because that's how large our entire population is) and the other 80% of us that hear about it in the news are going to start to think there's a problem with racism.

They're grasping for straws because the Obama administration is about to land in some seriously hot water - and they want to try and make it look like black-targetted racism is a sweeping trend.