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Date Posted: 22:47:14 04/08/02 Mon
Author: Drummond
Subject: Mixed race couple in TV ad, or plausible deniability?

There's a car advertisement, I think for Nissan or Mitsubishi, that begins with a beautiful young woman (the beret does something for me) starting a technopop song on the car stereo (Suspend disbelief for the fact that the song begins before she hits the button). She then begins a sensuous dance, while her swarthy boyfriend looks over at her and smiles. She is white. He is, perhaps black, hispanic, or middle eastern. You never get a long enough look at him to tell for sure.

So was this the first commercial to depict a mixed race couple? Well, maybe. But they have plausible deniability to cater to the racists. In a couple of the scenes (they flash by so quickly, everything is impression. I don't know why everyone thinks this is so clever) you see a third person in the back. You don't see if anybody is behind the driver's seat, which would bring them back into trouble if it suggested a double date. Third person in the back is the "fifth wheel" or the three's a crowd killer of romance. They're just kids hanging out. The guy never makes contact with her.

Can anybody remember a television ad depicting a mixed race couple?

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I can't remember.. -- shauna, 23:10:13 04/08/02 Mon
- I know ive seen at least one, -- PAUL., 05:35:17 04/09/02 Tue
- Yes, it can have different meanings. That's my point. -- Drummond, 09:45:49 04/09/02 Tue
Re: Yeah, I know of one. -- The Serpent, 13:51:40 04/09/02 Tue
- Good example! -- Drummond, 21:08:56 04/09/02 Tue
  - Re: That's the only "mixed" couple I could think of. -- The Serpent, 14:10:04 04/11/02 Thu
    - I think Kirk and Uhura had the first white/black kiss on television -- Drummond, 00:06:42 04/13/02 Sat
      - Yeh,didnt it get slated for it? -- PAUL., 20:01:17 04/13/02 Sat