This would be fine, if our country didn't have a horrific history of oppressive and violent racism that resulted in the immiseration of millions upon millions of individuals, many of them American citizens.
We have that history, we are still struggling under the weight of that history (some more than others, of course), and that is why we "can't have nice things".
Think of it this way, there's a lava flow running right next to the village you live in, which means you have to be careful not to do things that would get people killed. Sure, this can be restrictive at times, but, you know, there's frickin' lava. Right. There. For some reason a lot of people (they tend to have something in common, not sure what) don't see the entrenched institutionalized racism in this country, nor do they seem to consider it a serious problem. It is one of the most serious problems that continues to face this country, and historians are going to damn us (yes us, you, me, all of us) for not having dealt with it properly for far too long. Concerns like the effectiveness of advertisements are so far down the rungs compared to this problem that they aren't worth caring about.
This would be fine, if our country didn't have a horrific history of oppressive and violent racism that resulted in the immiseration of millions upon millions of individuals, many of them American citizens.
We have that history, we are still struggling under the weight of that history (some more than others, of course), and that is why we "can't have nice things".
Think of it this way, there's a lava flow running right next to the village you live in, which means you have to be careful not to do things that would get people killed. Sure, this can be restrictive at times, but, you know, there's frickin' lava. Right. There. For some reason a lot of people (they tend to have something in common, not sure what) don't see the entrenched institutionalized racism in this country, nor do they seem to consider it a serious problem. It is one of the most serious problems that continues to face this country, and historians are going to damn us (yes us, you, me, all of us) for not having dealt with it properly for far too long. Concerns like the effectiveness of advertisements are so far down the rungs compared to this problem that they aren't worth caring about.