If you want to hear straight talk about race, ethnicity, and cultural stereotypes in America, look to the advertising community. They know what sells. To black people! To Latinos! To gays! If stereotypes are true, ads will prove it.
Only 39 percent of American voters think black-white relations are improving. And that's the optimists: Thirteen percent of black voters think race relations are getting better. What's the deal, America? Haven't you noticed our black president?
"¡Goya!" For many Americans, the name alone invokes fearful memories of some weird food that Mexicans probably eat, who even knows. Now, Goya is working to assure white people: This stuff is good! But are whites ready?
So why is he in a "Latino comedy" then? Also today: Kevin Spacey has gone shopping, we now know who will play Lance Loud, a series renewal gives us hope in the world, and Chace Crawford is moving upstate.
Andrea Peyser's great-great-great grandparents, 1864: "Even our slave agrees: Slavery is okay!" Andrea Peyser, today: "Even my nanny agrees: Deport illegals!"
So much racism news today! What else are non-Caucasians concerned about? Their massive erasure from the portrayal of New York City in its marketing campaign to tourists, that's what! The city's laughably titled "Just ask the locals" campaign encourages clueless tourists to ask famous NYC celebrities—who are friendly, and stationed at strategic spots throughout town—where to go in the city. Deborah Harry likes Kenkeleba Garden in the East Village! But now people are grumbling, because a little counting reveals that an outrageously disproportionate number of the celebs featured in the campaign are white. Latinos, it seems, just don't sell:
