Thanks, so much CH for sending me this ARTICLE link!  I’m sure that you, as a white man who appreciates black women, are happy to see prominent white men speaking out about this nonsense.

To those who may not be aware, recently, there was an (see pic) Old Navy Ad, featuring a Wm-Bw couple with their biracial son posted on Twitter that received  many ignorant racist tweets. Some of us know that the son of Senator John McCain (candidate for the Presidency in 2008) is married to a black woman. I posted pics and their marriage announcement article here on the Ezine a couple of years ago.

Anyway, here’s an ARTICLE from The Washington Post about the Senator’s son’s reaction to that Twitter brouhaha.

Therefore the senator’s son, who is married to a black woman, has no patience for critics of the clothing company’s ad. .  .  . Sen. John McCain’s son, Jack, had a blunt assessment of the people criticizing an Old Navy ad featuring an interracial couple: “Ignorant racists.” [He told them to] “Eat it.”

Okay, I scanned just a few of the tweets,  and it was the usual garden variety vitriol from bottom-of-the-food-chain white racists, but what made me just move on with a quickness were the ones from blacks. Some of them hotly stated [Read more…]