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Originally Posted by tomia
I don't think I have that folder anymore. This was from about two years ago. But if you think about it there are plenty of other examples, one of the most famous is the Huxtable household on the Cosby show. Two Mulatta children conveniently born to two monoracial parents.
I agree that the children are a range of phenotypes that don't seem to correspond with the tv parents on the Cosby show. Some will argue "kids can come out all different colors" but I think it's notable that kids that look like Lisa Bonet, etc. rarely are shown either with parents that look like them or with interracial parents.
However, I don't see Mrs. Huxtable as monoracial but rather as more of a brown mulatto phenotype. I don't have problems with presentations like the Cosby show, except when they are the only presentation of families with mulattos. Where are the families where the mother, father, and kids all look like Lisa Bonet? Or where the kids are 1st generation biracial with a white parent and a black parent? I agree with you that there's not balance.
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I've seen mixed race children in diaper, toy and food commercials and when it shows their loving mother she is always (well, almost always, with one exception I can think of which was a headache medicine commercial) a Black woman. Now I understand that there are plenty of Black-White biracials who have a Black mother, however in the instances where these shows or commercials do show the "father" as well (like in that Bank of America example), he is always Black. Plus by showing the Black mother, even if the father is not present, that is implying that this child is from a Black family. It is kind of like saying "Don't you worry, folks! This IS a black child-- we are not promoting misegenation by showing this racially ambiguous kid-- rest assured this child is BLACK."
That's a great point. 
Balance is needed.
Fascinating post and thread overall.
