Despite the ugly backlash incited by a Cheerios commercial featuring a mixed race family, the ad’s six-year-old star is all smiles. Grace Colbert, the adorable actress who plays the daughter in the recent ad, sat down with her biological parents, Janet and Christopher Colbert, for an interview on MSNBC on Tuesday. When asked what Grace […]
TAMPA, Fla. – The commercial starts with a curly-haired cutie talking to her mom, a white woman, about Cheerios. “Dad told me that Cheerios is good for your heart. Is that true,” she asks. The little girl then runs off and you see her dad, a black man, covered in Cheerios. The joke is that […]