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...after midnight at Richard's Club, 20 miles away in Lawtell. The spacious wooden dance floor is vibrating as the all-black crowd whirls and twirls to an infectious two-step. A young boy tickles the ribs of a frottoir, a washboard-like instrument, with a pair of spoons-zhicka-zhicka, zhicka-zhicka-as a sultry teenage girl in a red Janet Jackson cap thumps out a beat on her electric bass guitar. Keith Frank, their brother and leader of the Soileau Zydeco Band, has the mike. "Get on, boy!" he sings, accompanied by a repetitive, irresistibly danceable rhythm...
...second passage he read, called "The Last Mill Picnic," described the last all-Black mill picnic in his town and the mixed emotions that accompanied...
Take the example of McDonald's "What You Want Is What You Get" campaign of the past few years. Several of these television commercials feature all-Black casts; others are completely white. While the commercials usually have some themes in common--McDonald's family setting, their low prices, their oh-so-appetizing foods--the language and pretenses in both types of commercials constitute stereotypical parodies of normal life...
Another commercial follows the path of McDonald's food as it travels through the air vents in an apartment building, all of whose occupants are Black. Unlike many of the white-casted commercials in the series, this and other all-Black ads stress value as a reason to come to McDonald's. The median family income for Blacks may be lower than that for whites, but this race-based economic targeting only reinforces stereotypes...
Both McDonald's and Wendy's use their staffs, or at least actors who play them, in their commercials. But McDonald's seems to have segregated its staff, since the ads show only all-Black or all-white franchise operators. Wendy's on the other hand, displays a range of ages and races in their employees in each separate commercial...