Subliminal Mind Vlokking by the New York Times

So now, it's to the point where I cannot pick up a copy of the New York Times without expecting a thorough gob smacking. Sometimes it requires a little looking, but more often than not it is plain as day.

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In today's Sunday edition of Amerika's newspaper of record, the devious little elitists from 8th Avenue try to slip one past us on the front page.

You can't see it too well in the screen capture below, but what we have here is an ad for Citi Bank at the bottom of the page that features almost   childlike deviousness. I had to do a double take when I saw it.

The ad shows an elderly couple apparently watching television. The photograph is a little strange however, and as a result triggers the viewer's interest.

It is not clear at first, but a closer look reveals that the couple is apparently interracial. The husband is a light-skinned black man, but you have to look really closely to see this. In the background are the minarets of Istanbul. The tag line reads: "My parents love their new life in Istanbul. The only thing they miss is cheering on their beloved team. So for their anniversary, I used my Thank You Points to send them something special - their seats from the old stadium." 

What does this imply? Well, if the "son" is old enough to be buying his parents stadium seats, we can assume that he has to be about 30. That would mean that he would have been born around 1980, when interracial marriages were only about 1.5% of all marriages in the US (compared with 20% today). The fact that he refers to the couple as his "parents" means that the couple is not just dating, and did in fact produce a half-black baby, just like Obama's wonderful mother Ann Dunham ("'Those are not my people,' she hissed").

What are the chances?

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