It’s affected my feelings about blacks now. I just don’t want to even interact with them. I used to be totally race-neutral since I was a kid.

I could care less what color, ethnicity, or gender the participants are in an ad or how prolific they are, but this constant "slapping around" white people and especially white males just "because they can" gets my dander up. I lived through the civil rights movement of the '60s and'70s and one of the complaints was the disrespect, with a few notable exceptions, non-whites suffered in the ad and entertainment industries. The complaints were often valid and, rightly so, that had to change. Likewise, the ad and entertainment industries should not have leave to constantly disrespect white people, either.

I figure it's all part of inculcating the "New Jim Crow" into our society. The old Jim Crow was essentially a system of legal and social constructs designed to favor a particular race or people (white) and the New Jim Crow is the exact same thing except it favors anybody but white. Any "Jim Crow" is a bad thing and we're going down that same road as before. No good came of it before and no good will come of it again.

In my county the last three murders have been a black man killing his White girl friend .The last one Was 9mos pregnant with his son and had attended several BLM rallies with her executioner in the months before her demise.

I find whites to be very tolerant of blacks in Minnesota. But no tolerance the other way around. Blacks for the majority have been brainwashed that they are victims when in fact that is not true. their ancestors certainly were but they are all dead now.
Of course I am speaking generally

Like minds think alike. Many adults I query only read the paper. I quit the paper three years ago!
Trashy propaganda.
You drink in life when you expand your horizons.
I am a broker also. My favorite subject to read about are the ancient civilizations . mythology
All history except I don't like war books generally.
But I did read with fascination Joseph Gallaway an imbedded reporter in Vietnam's book about a battle they were thrust in.
A great book but a tough read because the names of the natives were so unfamiliar and different was "The European discovery of Tahiti"
I love to read Graham Hancock's books on the lost and forgotten civilization's.
Currently thanks to Freedomforall on this forum.
I have been reading Robert Heinlein ( he is soooo
Good). I can't even imagine not liking reading.
But I do hear it all the time.

Think about the repulsive retailers who dropped Trumps dress line after The evil hag fell on her face. Shareholders should have demanded they be fired for ignoring their fiduciary duty. Because it was a best selling item.

Hi Mccannon01 ,
The left implies that it is bigotry to disagree with any part of its agenda.
Corporate adds representing PC is a trend similar to TV Shows .It has gotten to a point of being a ridiculous Invasion to the senses I think it started with Socially Conscious investing.
A couple of decades ago. Then the endowments
Jumped on the band wagon.
Initially it was all about the environment and the evil oil companies. Wall Street embraced the idea like they do any scheme. If a company still wanted to make their poison but dress up the pig they would add a minority to the adds and "be more
Inclusive" since it has grown like cancer.

maybe Obama just was the supreme entitled black, with hatred for whites. I can tell you that there is a lot LESS tolerance of blacks by whites, and probably less tolerance of whites by blacks since Obama.

I find that black people, various minorities, and women are definitely favored in advertising. I just tune them out and the companies that put on those ads. If they think so little of their product that they have to resort to this political correctness nonsense to get people to buy it- they dont need my business.

We all know that Obama the traitor did all he could to try to start a race war. So did Charles Manson.

I also recommend AS to people a lot. However, I judge if they are readers, and start small with either "Anthem" or "Fountainhead" if they are not readers. My mail carrier loved "Fountainhead". Our daughter read "Anthem" in 5th grade and understood it, but her IQ is in the top 1%. She has found herself working as COO with a bunch of guys who are Rand fans, to the point of having quotes up in the offices. It was the best setting for her. I have walked into restaurants wearing a shirt with Rand quote, and people come up and are so happy to find someone else who has read Rand. I worry that today's students don't like to read, have short attention spans, and are less likely to discover Rand. In fact, they are not likely to have read any philosophy. it is to their own detriment and makes them more susceptible to "talking points" - less likely to think for themselves.
I have a friend who retired to Atlanta, and he and I are like minded and share conversations via e-mail. I went to school with Tom DeWeese (American Policy Center), and we have talked on the phone or e-mailed over the years, he is a huge Rand fan. My broker and one doctor have also read AS, which puts them higher on my list as thinking people. Reading is okay if it is hard, I remember my first Dostoevsky in high school, and it was hard, but you stick with it. My husband is a big reader, and varied topics interest him. When one reads, one topic leads to another, and you end up with information on a broad base of topics. I love philosophy, but also history, cars (Richard Petty's autobio.), English novels, architecture, science, Japanese writer Soseki, Argentine writer Jorge Borges. We translated from Latin, the writing of Cicero and Virgil, maybe that gave me more patience for hard reading. I wish teachers would urge kids to read, not tell them they on't like reading either, which I heard two do locally!

I dislike the idea of coming off like a "white male bigot", but after getting my proverbial face slapped over and over again just for being white, male, and heterosexual by these ad and entertainment types my guard is up and I see it coming even before they bring out the insult. There was a time Subway was one of my favorite places to get a sandwich, but for a while their "stupid white male" ads were so obnoxious I can no longer go there.

Thanks and same to you. It's a refreshing thing for me to communicate with like minded folks.

Re:Ayn Rand I was asking my dad what in the world these politicians are thinking. His answer was to read Atlas Shrugged. That was just a couple of years ago. I have tried to get probably a dozen people to read or listen on cd . 1 and 1/2 took me up on it. My brother loved it and a liberal friend who quit half way cause he didn't understand it.
I did read it out loud to my wife after I first finished it. She likes me to read to her. Although she did cut me off after 100 pages of John Galts speech promising that she gets it already. LOL

Congratulations on the many years of marriage, we are now pat 40 years.
I was lucky to have a good dad, even thought he spent a lot of time working. He raised me to be strong and see life realistically. Mom was lost in some 40smovie version of what life should be, as was her sister, both dying form alcohol related illness in their 40s.Then,in 9th grade I got into Latin, for four years, which opened me to philosophy, and ultimately to Ayn Rand. It was philosophy which let me see that we are here now, and it does not matter what went before, it is what we do from that point on that matters, our choice. My husband is not a drinker, which was a choice. He modeled hard work for our daughter, responsible living, and fun in sports and cars. She now works 50 hours a week and drives a Charger, which she is the most fun car she has ever had. Ever notice how many feminist hate men, Behar said she likes being married, but not living with a husband. They never seem to move forward, always looking for someone to blame.

My wife's parents were absent in her childhood because of Alcohol. I drank more booze from 15-21 then from 21-60 (our married years so far)

Like yourself she choose the self improvement
Vs the self-destructive life.
It is kind of interesting because she is a tremendous mom and now grandma. I attribute a lot of that to her recognizing the void in her youth.
Makes me think of an old standby saying.
It's not so much what happens to you , it's what you do about it that matters.

thank you. This is why, regardless of what the lesbians think, kids of both sexes need dads in their lives. My mom was alive until I was 16, but usually passed out drunk. We had a vast number of books, and she did encourage reading. However, it was my dad who got me access to the adult library when my reading was above the kids' library. It was dad who modeled a love of capitalism, common sense, and hard work. He shared his love of cars from when I was little, shared business with me as a teen. He decided I needed to know about sewing so got me in a class one summer. He expected good grades. Above all, he made me happy to be a girl, but he let me know it was okay to try any skill or fun activity. As a result, I felt the same about boys, they had those rights as well. Like Rosie Grier who did football and needlepoint! We should embrace who we are, but not make a limiting thing. There is no need to take masculinity out of boys. It seems the feminist are to afraid of masculinity, and try to stamp it out, changing themselves into irrational beings in the process. Dad's matter.

For sure. If possible for the young to be home schooled today as a start it would be helpful.
Now many of the new parents having kids are already indoctrinated and unaware.

Absolutely!
Also a list of schools that use the most collective leftist theories in schooling our kids.

I would love to see a list of companies that message a collectivist agenda and a list of alternatives to use instead.

Great comment Thank you pixelate .

More troubling is the Lego Movie.
Totally ment to indoctrinate the children to the Marxist ideals.
The enemy is President Business , the hero is a non thinking common worker.
http://www.vulture.com/2014/02/lego-m...

I stopped watching Tee-Vee nearly 20 years ago ... as such, I see very little of the advertising. However, there are a few monitors at my local fitness center -- and I will sometimes take part in viewing the content that is piped downstream to the general public in the context of 'entertainment' -- In any event, I have noticed a similar phenomena ... the middle-class white hetro-male is depicted as a nincompoop. I shrug in disgust and try to keep tabs on which products to avoid.

As a 52 year old who enjoyed the Star Wars films from the very beginning, I did see "The Last Jedi" on the big screen -- two reasons:
1. I figured that I was eventually going to see it -- so do it up big.
2. The theater were I saw it was new and included swell individual lounge chair seating and amazing surround sound.
In any case -- the film was deplorable. The plot itself was weak ... to laughably absurd. There was a large bit that was only in the picture as a means to decry capitalism. The way that the male characters are portrayed as incompetent was beyond cringe-worthy. The purple-haired admiral was the embodiment of a feminist bureaucratic monstrosity. Many of the supporting characters filled out the screen simply as a means to promote the far-left progressive dogma.
As you indicated, this Rey character comes from nowhere and has all of these amazing powers. It reminded me a little bit of John Galt -- leaving home at the age of 12 (John's father is mentioned in one sentence) ... and John goes on to stop the motor of the world. The fundamental difference is that John Galt has a rationale for all of his actions; he has a guiding philosophy and is implementing a very methodical step-by-step plan to achieve his goals. This Rey character is really just a zero that has been deigned to have powers without reason or direction.
Last Jedi was not much fun to watch. I compare it to Return of the Jedi from 34 years earlier . . . RTOJ had a well-stitched together plot, suspense, consistency and a truly satisfying ending. It will be interesting to see just how much worse the next Star Wars film will be in a couple years.

RIP

My dad asked me if "I have a hole in my head "
when younger. I said "my mouth".Wrong answer.

Just looked Rodney up. He drowned in his swimming pool during 2012. Contributing factors were a mix of alcohol, marijuana and cocaine. He was 40-something.
Me dino forgot how old exactly as dinos are prone to do. Heck, I'd like to forget my age altogether but too many relatives send cards.