On: I left the ad industry because of data tracking

[orbat]

"strong healthy black man rescues white woman from a bumbling and pathetic white male."

Yeah, that… really doesn't sound as common a theme as you imply

[YUMad → orbat]

It is not common IRL, black male + white female is the 2nd least common interracial coupling.

However, without going into who's pushing it, it is significantly more common in media than IRL.

[Simon_says → orbat]

It must be common in 2Ccltvcm's feed. Maybe the algorithm knows him a little too well.

[trophycase → orbat]

Maybe not the black male part. But the "competent woman" and "bumbling helpless male" is an extremely common TV commercial trope once you're paying attention.

[krapp → trophycase]

It's not really a commercial trope so much as a TV sitcom trope, going back at least as far as the Honeymooners.

It's also not as common as it used to be, as far as I can tell.

Edit: I've been thinking about it, and I don't think I can recall ever actually seeing "black male rescuing a white woman from a white male" being used in an advertisement, anywhere. Typically such a motif is used to present the black male as a threat, not as somehow heroically superior to his white counterpart.

Even then I can only recall its use in political advertisements (such as the infamous "Willie Horton" ad) and maybe very old movies.