Responsibility for our actions.THANK YOU FOR A WELL-WRITTEN, INFORMATIVE MAGAZINE that does not talk down to its audience. BLACK ENTERPRISE'S quality content marks it as a favorite publication of mine--and I'm not even black! One reader's letter to the editor regarding the tequila tequila Distilled liquor, usually clear in colour and unaged, made from the fermented juice of the Mexican agave plant. (See agave family.) It contains 40–50% alcohol. ad in the May 2006 issue troubled me. She wrote, "Your advertising department needs to take a better look at the statistics concerning how fast food and alcohol affect the black community." The writer's underlying assumption is that members of the black community are more likely than non-blacks to be helpless victims of an onslaught of predatory predatory pertaining to predator. predatory behavior the hunting of birds, mice and small reptiles by cats and the hunting and herding behavior of dogs, often facilitated in a pack. fast food and alcohol advertisements, as if they lack the agency and ability to determine for themselves the course of their own lives and the products they decide to consume. Is the writer's opinion reflective Refers to light hitting an opaque surface such as a printed page or mirror and bouncing back. See reflective media and reflective LCD. of the majority of black Americans? White Americans The term white American (often used interchangeably with "Caucasian American"[2] and within the United States simply "white"[3]) is an umbrella term that refers to people of European, Middle Eastern, and North African descent residing in the United States. ? Americans who vote? If so, what, exactly, would be the corrective cor·rec·tive adj. Counteracting or modifying what is malfunctioning, undesirable, or injurious. n. An agent that corrects. corrective, n course of action? To only allow advertising to reach those who have checked the "Yes, mommy, I'm a grown up" box on a federal form? Anittah Patrick Brooklyn, NY |
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