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Essay Archive - False Advertising
False Advertising
"My mailbox and million of demographically similar others are choked with flyers from companies (Wal-mart, Victoria's Secret) bent on publicizing both their wares and their social bona fides by displaying black and white models at cordial ease with one another. A torrent of good will messages about race arrives daily - revelations of corporate largesse, commercials, news features, TV specials, all proclaiming that whites like me feel strongly positive impulses of friendship for blacks and that those same admirable impulses are....
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