{"id":31416,"date":"2013-05-31T03:50:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T03:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31416"},"modified":"2013-06-06T19:17:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T19:17:44","slug":"this-is-the-mixed-race-cheerios-ad-all-the-idiots-are-complaining-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31416","title":{"rendered":"This Is The Mixed-Race Cheerios Ad All The Idiots Are Complaining About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/multi-racial-cheerios-ad-2013-5\" target=\"_blank\">This Is The Mixed-Race Cheerios Ad All The Idiots Are Complaining About<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\" target=\"_blank\">Business Insider<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/advertising\" target=\"_blank\">Advertising<\/a><br \/>\n2013-05-30<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:jgrey@businessinsider.com\" target=\"_blank\">Judith Grey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new commercial for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cheerios\" target=\"_blank\">Cheerios<\/a> featuring a mixed-race family has become a target for idiots on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/anodyne\" target=\"_blank\">anodyne<\/a> spot features a Caucasian mother, an African-American father and their biracial daughter, but contains no overt messaging, politically correct or otherwise (except that Cheerios are good for you).<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adweek.com\/adfreak\/its-2013-and-people-are-still-getting-worked-about-interracial-couples-ads-149889\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Adweek<\/em> noted<\/a> the spot had been propelled onto the front page of <em>Reddit<\/em>, where it received a plethora of racists remarks. <em>Concreteloop.com<\/em> noted a <em>YouTube<\/em> commentator who allegedly called the spot an &#8220;abomination.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/multi-racial-cheerios-ad-2013-5\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kYofm5d5Xdw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Is The Mixed-Race Cheerios Ad All The Idiots Are Complaining About Business Insider Advertising 2013-05-30 Judith Grey A new commercial for Cheerios featuring a mixed-race family has become a target for idiots on the internet. The anodyne spot features a Caucasian mother, an African-American father and their biracial daughter, but contains no overt messaging, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,6,20,842],"tags":[14812,14814,14869,14813],"class_list":["post-31416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-new-media","category-usa","category-videos","tag-business-insider","tag-cheerios","tag-general-millis","tag-judith-grey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}