New Wendy's Commercial with Interracial Couple

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swirlman07

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I wonder if anyone has viewed the newest commercial for Wendy's featuring their product, natural cut french fries with sea salt. An interracial couple is shown twice during the commercial. A young black man is seen hand-feeding the new french fries to a young white woman. I guess that you could argue that they're friends but the idea of hand-feeding seems to lend a more intimate interpretation, IMO. Perhaps, it's a tacit acknowledgement that interracial relationships are more common nowadays.
 
swirlman07 said:
I wonder if anyone has viewed the newest commercial for Wendy's featuring their product, natural cut french fries with sea salt. An interracial couple is shown twice during the commercial. A young black man is seen hand-feeding the new french fries to a young white woman. I guess that you could argue that they're friends but the idea of hand-feeding seems to lend a more intimate interpretation, IMO. Perhaps, it's a tacit acknowledgement that interracial relationships are more common nowadays.
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Yeah I saw it a couple of days ago as well, had to do a double take to make sure my eyes weren't deceiving me. :D
 
It never seems like there are any good intentions, so my mind automatically goes to, what's the backward reasoning for featuring the IR couple? :smt102
 
FRESH said:
It never seems like there are any good intentions, so my mind automatically goes to, what's the backward reasoning for featuring the IR couple? :smt102
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LOL, the conspiracy brotha comes alive in me as well.

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"You know he does have a point about that Colonel. I never trusted the Colonel, slaves cooked that chicken, ain't no white man know about no 16 herbs and spices and giblets."
 
They look so cute together! What do you say you actually help write a pilot on an interracial comedy family?

OpenHeart said:
Hmmm...I watched that commercial but there's nothing apparent other than a young BM giving a ww some of his french fries. There many vague commericials like this already. There are also some that are very apparent such as the Lowe's commercial below...

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Here is another interracial couple in a commercial for IKEA Home Furnishings. It came out a couple of years ago. Again, this is not vague by any means.

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The Mocha Killer strikes into the hearts of men and women everywhere! Feel the voodoo bliss of thy hands caressed the ever-so gentle bodies of yore!

OpenHeart said:
Here is another interracial couple in a commercial for IKEA Home Furnishings. It came out a couple of years ago. Again, this is not vague by any means.

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Hmmm, I think with your poetry skills, and my writing prowess, I do have another idea based on a fictional universe. Very weird one too. Aside from the politically charged one I'm currently doing, this one will be more akin to a theme I called "Fated Hearts".

OpenHeart said:
That's a thought, but I believe you are better suited for that.:D I'm only good at poetry...not stories or plays and such.
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It's all well and nice, but it seems to me that some are willing to make a big deal out of nothing particularly interesting. There seems to be a "Breaking News" tendency among some posters to jump on anything that seems remotely close to representing black men and white women relationships. I know I'll get jumped on by some, but you all know I'm right whether or not you want to admit it. Guys, it ain't that serious. By acting the way you do, you're inadvertently conceding that interracial relationships are "unusual" and fetishist. If you just treat it like a regular relationship, then aren't we all good?
 
OpenHeart said:
Hmmm...I watched that commercial but there's nothing apparent other than a young BM giving a ww some of his french fries. There many vague commericials like this already. There are also some that are very apparent such as the Lowe's commercial below...

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I have helped female friends, married and unmarried, with projects around their homes. But, I have never feed them food. So, in your neighborhood how often do random black men hand feed white women food in public? Admittedly, the Wendy's clip is only an excerpt, and the entire commercial is more expressive.
 
LaydeezmanCris said:
It's all well and nice, but it seems to me that some are willing to make a big deal out of nothing particularly interesting. There seems to be a "Breaking News" tendency among some posters to jump on anything that seems remotely close to representing black men and white women relationships. I know I'll get jumped on by some, but you all know I'm right whether or not you want to admit it. Guys, it ain't that serious. By acting the way you do, you're inadvertently conceding that interracial relationships are "unusual" and fetishist. If you just treat it like a regular relationship, then aren't we all good?
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Alternately, it's recognizing, exactly as stated in the original post, that the media, and perhaps society, is growing more comfortable with IR relationships...
 
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