"Call me!"
But then why not put a beautiful African-American woman at the end of the ad? - E.J. Dionne, October 29,2006, commenting during This Week with George Stephanopoulos about the anti-Harold-Ford ad featuring a white woman saying "Harold, call me!"It's disconcerting to hear a liberal columnist like Dionne make a comment like that, and for it go completely unexamined and unchallenged in the round-table setting where he made it.Given the choice between speaking up about this ad as "racist," and saying nothing, it seems to me the Democrats and their allies should say nothing. The idea that Harold Ford needs to be linked with "a beautiful African-American woman" is, I think, a lot more disturbing than a possible play on historic white "fears" about "miscegenation." In 2006, no one should be implying that people should only be romantically involved with people of the same "race." (For what it's worth, Ford's grandmother was Irish.)
[T]he NAACP and others have complained the commercial makes an implicit appeal to deep-seated racial fears about black men and white women. - Associated Press, October 25, 2006
These criticisms are like responding to Nazi propaganda depicting a "sinister Jew" figure dating an Aryan maiden by suggesting the Jew should have been shown with a Jewish woman.
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