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by krapp
2565 days ago
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It's not really a commercial trope so much as a TV sitcom trope, going back at least as far as the Honeymooners. It's also not as common as it used to be, as far as I can tell. Edit: I've been thinking about it, and I don't think I can recall ever actually seeing "black male rescuing a white woman from a white male" being used in an advertisement, anywhere. Typically such a motif is used to present the black male as a threat, not as somehow heroically superior to his white counterpart. Even then I can only recall its use in political advertisements (such as the infamous "Willie Horton" ad) and maybe very old movies. |
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