Only Caucasion Women Need Apply - No Negros or Mexicans

News Type: Event — Fri Oct 24, 2008 8:11 PM EDT

Imagine if you will an add looking for a woman to represent the city of Phoenix. Now imagine that this person has to be Caucasian. Are you serious? Are you telling me that the only woman an audience will identify with Phoenix has to be Caucasion? A black or more appropriately, Mexican woman will not work?

I feel foolish when I admit that it was only about two years ago that I believed racism was largely dead in the US. I've learned differently now. With the success of actresses like Jessica Alba and to a lesser extend Jennifer Lopez aren't we ready to at least embrace a Hispanic woman as the face of Phoenix (A heavily Hispanic populated city). I hope this add is a scam add like most of the ads on Craigslist. If it isn't, I hope whatever TV show that comes out of this never gets off the ground. It's time to get past our superficial and vain ideas of what ethnicity is appropriate or not.

This is from http://phoenix.craigslist.org/cph/cpg/892153604.html

AUDITIONS ON SATURDAY, HOTEL INFO PROVIDED UPON RESPONSE.

A MAJOR NETWORK TV SHOW IS NOW CASTING! WE ARE LOOKING FOR AZ's MOST DESIRABLE WOMEN WHO FEEL THEY COULD HAVE THEIR OWN SHOW ALL ABOUT THEIR LIFE IN THE CITY!

One of America's most successful and reputable networks is extending an amazing opportunity to a select woman. The cameras will follow you around as you make new friends in a new city, dating, working, shopping, and exploring.

SEEKING ATTRACTIVE, OUTGOING, SINGLE CAUCASIAN WOMEN, WHO CAN APPEAR BETWEEN THE AGES OF 25-36.

Must be available to shoot for this pilot within the next few months. There will be monetary compensation for your time. (But what is that compared to instant fame as our network broadcasts to over 64.1 million homes!)

Please email a RECENT PHOTO or links to photos, contact info, a brief description of yourself to my email. ASAP

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{"commentId":3682695,"authorDomain":"leogodin"}

leogodin

I suspect this is what's normal for entertainment but that still doesn't make it right.

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5 votes

#1 - Fri Oct 24, 2008 8:41 PM EDT

{"commentId":3684095,"authorDomain":"mightyblogger"}

Pacific Northwest Blogger

I can just see the legislation coming out of this... Lou Dobbs will be all over this any day.

If a weak dollar is incentive for migrant workers to return to Mexico,
then why not just block any wire transfers to Mexico.

It fits into the current anti immigration, anti migrant worker sentiment.

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2 votes

#2 - Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:21 PM EDT

{"commentId":3684479,"authorDomain":"leogodin"}

leogodin

For a cable news guy, Lou Dobbs is OK. Of course that's like saying, for a complete incompetent, he's OK. I think this has more to do with our inner biases and what the entertainment industry would call good business. They believe, probably correctly, that the American public will have a more more positive image to a white character than a minority. It's a shame but it's the reality we live in today.

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2 votes

#2.1 - Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:50 PM EDT

{"commentId":3697102,"authorDomain":"KyanaBelle"}

KyanaBelle

I think I would be more worried about this being someone who is DANGEROUS as opposed to bigoted. This ad sounds frightening, I sense my inner warning bells going "dingdingdingding"

Leogodin, I believe the officials in Pheonix should be made aware of this. Seriously. My instincts tell me this is big trouble.

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4 votes

#3 - Sat Oct 25, 2008 9:25 PM EDT

{"commentId":3697284,"authorDomain":"biggerthebetter"}

biggerthebetter

Agreed! This sends up signals in a bad way to me, too.

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3 votes

#3.1 - Sat Oct 25, 2008 9:44 PM EDT

{"commentId":3697520,"authorDomain":"KyanaBelle"}

KyanaBelle

Agreed! This sends up signals in a bad way to me, too.

^5 for women's instincts, btb!

Let's hope the air-headed Paris Hilton wannabes don't fall prey to this ad. Scary, because it sounds like that is the very profile this ad is targeting.

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3 votes

#3.2 - Sat Oct 25, 2008 10:07 PM EDT

{"commentId":3698626,"authorDomain":"alkimija"}

alkimija

Just what I was thinking, KyanaBelle. It can't be legit.

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3 votes

#3.3 - Sat Oct 25, 2008 11:51 PM EDT

{"commentId":3697576,"authorDomain":"darkdingo"}

Uncle Nick

perhaps they had already cast a hispanic and/or black host and were trying to "balance out" their show???

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3 votes

#4 - Sat Oct 25, 2008 10:13 PM EDT

{"commentId":3697967,"authorDomain":"KyanaBelle"}

KyanaBelle

Please email a RECENT PHOTO or links to photos, contact info, a brief description of yourself to my email. ASAP

Not "our" e-mail or "the e-mail"

What was the e-mail address? Was it a gmail, yahoo, or some other domain that a so-called "successful and reputable network" would never use?

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3 votes

#5 - Sat Oct 25, 2008 10:50 PM EDT

{"commentId":3697974,"authorDomain":"KyanaBelle"}

KyanaBelle

It seems to have already been flagged for removal - who called?

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3 votes

#5.1 - Sat Oct 25, 2008 10:51 PM EDT

{"commentId":3701714,"authorDomain":"biggerthebetter"}

biggerthebetter

Just the fact that it was a Craig's list ad makes it likely it was not legit.

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2 votes

#5.2 - Sun Oct 26, 2008 10:05 AM EDT

{"commentId":4409935,"authorDomain":"Getaclued"}

Get a clue d

The fact that this probably is a scam is more frightening than it being real.

Hopefully it has been taken down in time to avoid any starry eyed women from being injured or killed.

Those responsible for this ad should be arrested, tried and publicly hung. The numbers of young women of all backgrounds that are taken in by these types of schemes are many.

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#6 - Fri Dec 12, 2008 9:58 PM EST

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Jason-787810Deleted

{"commentId":4566011,"authorDomain":"leogodin"}

leogodin

Jason,

I've only ever deleted two comments that I can remember. Yours was one of them.

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1 vote

#8 - Sat Dec 27, 2008 12:17 PM EST

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