Comments by "Daniel Bradford" (@Falconlibrary) on "The BBC make a heroic effort and manage to track down a black, male and Muslim single parent family" video.

  1. The black population in the US is 13.5% overall, but here, they are also overrepresented in advertising and media. This has led some black people to wildly overestimate their own numbers. I got into an argument online yesterday with a black man who insisted that black people were at least 50% of the US population and that I had no basis for my claim it's 13.5%. I posted a link from the US Census Bureau, which is considered a reliable source for demographics, and he ignored it, saying that he wasn't going to engage with a racist. Facts are racist now. I looked at advertisements for upcoming Christmas sales, and out of 16 people modeling clothes, 11 were black, 5 white, no Asians nor Latinos (Latinos are 18.9% of the US population). This is not a one-off: black models are always at least 50% of the models for stores. I live in a city where black people are 14.62% of the population, so this is not models representing the community. It turns out that during the Black Lives Matter riots, many stores signed pledges to hire 50%+ black models. Latinos are 7% of the population in my city, but they have no guarantee of representation. I suppose if they wanted some, they should've rioted.
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