How Ads Got "Woke"
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WHEN in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary….
Welcome to the New American Digest: 2001-2022
There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.
Yes we’ll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we’ll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.
by Shel Silverstein
The steel mill sky is alive.
The fire breaks white and zigzag
shot on a gun-metal gloaming.
Man is a long time coming.
Man will yet win.
Brother may yet line up with brother:
This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers.
There are men who can’t be bought.
The fireborn are at home in fire.
The stars make no noise,
You can’t hinder the wind from blowing.
Time is a great teacher.
Who can live without hope?
In the darkness with a great bundle of grief
the people march.
In the night, and overhead a shovel of stars for keeps, the people
march:
“Where to? what next?”
— Carl Sandberg
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What ads?
I love how internet ads all feature attractive women who neither appear beneath the link nor have anything to do with the product. Knowing this keeps me from clicking on the link.
Pet peeve. An example is the local bank, it is a local bank, a few branches in adjoining towns. And on the South Shore of MA, it the area the Irish, Italians moved to from Boston. Very white, all the towns here are over 90% white.
So on all the literature from or at the bank, Negros; some Asians, some brown skins and more than half women. There are some white women, they are always with a black man. Some white children, shown with their parents; black or brown and sometimes Asian (sometimes they forget to show the white mother).
But white males are not seen. Are. Not. Seen.
The only ad I saw from that bank that had a white male, and only white people, was the TV ad trying to dredge up folks that had over $50K in ‘disposable funds’ to hand over for investment management.
Pet peeve.
This made me SO happy!
https://youtu.be/0rLhJZTHYo4
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