Have you seen the recurring Washington Mutual commercials that show stuffy bankers gawking at things like free checking and no atm fees? Have you noticed that in these commercials all the stuffy bankers are older white males? Have you also noticed that the friendly and reputable Washinton Mutual banker is young and black?

What I draw from this is that it’s ok to portray negative stereotypes on television, as long as they’re of white people. Now usually I can’t stand the forced multi-culturalism of most commercials. Take diaper commercials for example. There is always a white, black, and asian baby. So why do I care about this commercial? For one it’s negatively portraying a group of people, and second is that the group was probably purposely made to be all white. There are at least 15 people in the commercial in the evil white banker group and not a single one is a minority. Imagine a commercial where one whole group was black people portrayed negatively and contrasted with a good white person. The NAACP would be crying racism at the top of their lungs.