If you have to ask...it isn't.

"Is Senate Campaign ad racist?" screams the headline. It then goes on to attempt to color an ad as racist despite the fact you have to actively look for things and assign your own meaning to them for it to be. (and yes, with 5 minutes work, you too can see this on youtube).
The truth is more "racism" in this country is not actually racism...it is people who WANT everyone else to be thought of as racist looking for things they can say are racist. Even if they aren't. They create situations, say, "Hey, if you look at this through an obscure lense, change the meaning, content, and focus, it is clearly racist."
The people saying that are clearly either troublemakers or idiots. And I don't mean trouble makers in the sense of trying to make positive change. I mean trouble maker in the sense of creating trouble that doesn't exist because they want it to exist. Enough already. There is enough genuine racism going on without creating false pretexts to scream about it. Every time some moron breaks out something like this it sets unity back several steps because reasonable people get miffed that this nonsense is considered racism and react to the people screaming racism instead of to the material they are referencing.
If you have to ask if something is racist...don't. It isn't. If you have to make clarifying statements as to why something is racist...it isn't. Don't. If you have to defend your position explaining why something is racist...it isn't. Don't.
Finding racism where there is nothing does not help the cause of those of us fighting against it. It actually sets us back quite a ways because when REAL racism is evidenced it is easily disposed of as being another example of the diots who said that one ad was racist type thing...
Spend more time looking at stuff like Chris Rock's mom getting the crap service at the Cracker Barrell and the accusations, oft repeated about the Cracker Barrell chain, that it was because of her race. (Then watch the credibility of those accusations drop to nothing when you find out Al Sharpton, the only person in the U.S. with less credibility than Al Gore and Bush)
When a pattern of behavior legitimately exists and can be quantitifed, verified, and documented, that is one thing. But when things are so murky and cloudy that you have to make some pretty extreme extrapolations and the majority of people frankly know you are full of nonsense...you do not help situations. At some point you become the little boy crying wolf.
I have no clue why this article got under my skin so much. I suspect part of it is because often enough people ASSUME there is a matter where people will respond in a racist manner without a shred of proof or legitimacy to their assumption and then prevent the action from taking place because they assume a bad reaction...even if there won't be one.
Take for example the taboo of interracial couples in movies. Over and over we here the audience won't accept it. Grade A Bull smurf. There were interracial liasions back in the 20s and 30s in some lesser known movies. Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn and Sidney Poitier, hardly small names, were the stars of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (1967) in which there is not just interracial romance but a marriage. Whenever movies have been presented, the audience has had a clear reaction.
If the plot and acting were good, they went. If the plot and acting sucked, so did the attendance figures. It was not because of race, it was because of quality. It is that simple.
Yet the talking heads keep telling us we won't accept movies with interracial romance. Good to see they are paying attention. Finding racism where there is none keeps other movies of this theme from being made because they are told the audience won't accept it...even though we have already proved we not only accept it, we have reached that even better stage where it is irrelevant; race isn't a factor, quality is. It is the people who WANT there to be racism that doesn't exist who keep telling us it is there that cause the very result they are trying to prevent. Shame on you.
And shame on the people decrying the ad as racist. Maybe you need to look at yourself because that is where the racism is in this case.