TH poster

Argument: The Tommy Girl poster mocks Blacks by placing a young black girl provocatively sitting in a diner, where Blacks where previously banned from entering.

My view: A college student or a school teacher could notice the same observation, but most people wouldn't. I don't think the average Joe links a black girl sitting at a diner to Civil Rights prohibitions, and even college students have a hard time noticing it, as evidenced by the fact that, out of a class of more than 30 students, no one commented on it while the ad was being discussed, and only one student mentioned a fleeting thought about it. Whether said inference was intentional one may never know, but I hardly see the benefit of a racist ad in this 'politically-correct' times.