Published by Layla Abdullah-Poulos
Layla Abdullah-Poulos is an alumna of SUNY Empire State College with a Bachelor of Arts in Historical Studies and Literature and is presently a student in the School for Graduate Studies. She expects to complete her studies and receive a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies and Advance Certificates in Women and Gender Studies and American Studies by 2016. An aspiring academic, Abdullah-Poulos uses her knowledge not only to develop her own scholarship but also that of other SUNY Empire State College students. A proponent for the enrichment of higher education through diversity, she plans to continue her work as an educator who conveys to students an ethnically diverse historical awareness and furnish them with the skills necessary to acquire political proficiency and constructively affect societal change.
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Lyndell Williams 
I assume the two adverts you describe are not recent? Advertising has to show diverse couples now, otherwise there would be an outcry and the broadcasting company would be labelled as racist.
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I can frequently tell when a person of color is added to a commercial to meet a requirement. It’s better than nothing I guess, but I still groan when I see it.
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