I need some Dr. Tom in my life:

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Where can I find a practicing physician who moonlights as a chef and wants to prepare me a four-course meal in my home? Though he could leave out the watermelon salad, especially during Black History Month. :|


Being Erica's Dr. Tom is cool, too, but I doubt he would feed me chocolate:




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Even a commercial about chocolate

has no black people in it. The usurping of roles for brown people has not stopped with Angelina Jolie and Robert Downey, Jr. It continues with computer-generated chocolate people with unquestionably white features.

In the Hershey's commercial featured above, I counted two white people--a tall, thin young man, and a shorter, equally thin, younger woman. I also spotted a butterfly and three bunnies. Of course, the man was conveniently driving the car, because a lady in a commercial can't drive if her man is around.

Before you readers accuse me of being overly sensitive to the racism, sexism, sizeism and heteronormativity of a company hawking candy to Americans, look at the picture below:



It strikes me as odd that to enjoy "what makes a Hershey bar pure", the consumer should be thin, straight and white. Because fat people don't like candy. Neither do the gays or the non-white.

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