{"id":6613,"date":"2009-02-25T02:33:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T07:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=6613"},"modified":"2010-12-23T03:29:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T08:29:03","slug":"black-history-month-about-skin-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/02\/25\/black-history-month-about-skin-deep\/","title":{"rendered":"Black History Month: About Skin Deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February is Black History Month, the month in which companies tout their support for the Black community.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/multicultclassics.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MultiCultClassics<\/a>, a blog that focuses on company outreach to people of color as employees and consumers, has been asking some interesting questions about this phenomenon.\u00a0 Cynically, perhaps, it is suggested that it is all a big marketing scheme aimed at a good 13 percent of the American population.\u00a0\u00a0 Hmmmm.\u00a0 For <a href=\"http:\/\/multicultclassics.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/6438-bhm-2009.html\" target=\"_blank\">example<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6757\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/bhm_comcast.jpg\" alt=\"bhm_comcast\" width=\"567\" height=\"646\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This message was appearing on the screens at a grocery store&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6614  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/bhm_dominicks.jpg\" alt=\"bhm_dominicks\" width=\"180\" height=\"95\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and HighJive decided to test the theory.\u00a0 The blogger went to the grocery store website, searched for information regarding\u00a0&#8220;Black History Month,&#8221;\u00a0 and found only this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6616\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/bhm_dominicks_21.png\" alt=\"bhm_dominicks_21\" width=\"1024\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/bhm_dominicks_21.png 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/bhm_dominicks_21-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><br \/>\n(Post <a href=\"http:\/\/multicultclassics.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/6424-bhm-2009.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February is Black History Month, the month in which companies tout their support for the Black community.\u00a0 MultiCultClassics, a blog that focuses on company outreach to people of color as employees and consumers, has been asking some interesting questions about this phenomenon.\u00a0 Cynically, perhaps, it is suggested that it is all a big marketing scheme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[254,23703,285,1760],"class_list":["post-6613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-holidays","tag-marketing","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6613"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31314,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions\/31314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}