Thanks (?) Mr Jender, for passing this one on.
Text from this 1970 ad:
Though she was a tiger lady, our hero didn’t have to fire a shot to floor her. After one look at his Mr. Leggs slacks, she was ready to have him walk all over her. That noble styling sure soothes the savage heart! If you’d like your own doll-to-doll carpeting, hunt up a pair of these he-man Mr. Leggs slacks.
Really. Not racist at all.
“They won’t go for a black man, that’s just it,” R.K. Horton, a retired heating and air conditioning business owner, said of his neighbors. “I don’t think it’s being racist necessarily, they just don’t like black people that well.”
One wonders what exactly he thinks racism is. (From Salon.)
Update: I’ve just got to add in the words of Chris Rock, “What’s he got to do, shoot Medgar Evers to be a racist?” And also to refer you to this nice post on the topic.
That Dove Campaign for Real Beauty? Not so real after all.
Feminist Philosophers 