(silence)
- (daughter) Mom? - (mom) Yes, honey?
- Aw, I love this commercial. - (daughter) Dad told me that Cheerios
is good for your heart.
Is that true?
- (mom) It says here that Cheerios has whole grain oats
that can help remove some cholesterol
and that's heart healthy.
- Oh my god. That girl's so cute!
(loud footsteps)
(stirring in sleep)
(chuckles)
- Oh! (giggling)
- (giggling)
- (mom) Drew?
- (giggling) Who would cereal their dad's heart?
- Yummy and delicious for children to put on their fathers!
- That's it?
That's just a Cheerios commercial.
♪ (theme music) ♪
- (Finebros) So what happened in that commercial?
- It was... a Cheerios commercial.
- This little girl apparently thinks that her dad is super unhealthy.
- So the girl asked if it was actually healthy for your heart.
- But- oh, I think she was thinking of literally.
Went over to her dad, went to see if he was sleeping,
put it on his heart!
- I thought it was pretty funny.
- (Finebros) And what did you think of the family?
- They seemed fun.
- Funny.
- Nice.
- I thought they were actually a pretty good family.
- They seem like a normal family.
- (Finebros) A lot of people have gotten very angry
about this commercial. - Why?
- Why?
- Why is that exactly?
- How do they get angry over...?
(confused) But... what?
- (Finebros) Do you have any idea why? - No.
- No.
- Honestly, no.
- (Finebros) Well, people specifically are angry
because of the parents.
Do you have any idea why that could be?
- Uh... I don't know.
- (Finebros) Is there anything different about the parents to you?
- No.
- Wait, let me think. (giggling)
- (Finebros) Well, what it is is they're angry
because they're mixed race parents.
They're angry because they're mixed race parents.
Do you know what that means?
- Yep.
- One's white and one's black?
- (Finebros) That's exactly why people have gotten upset.
- Why?
- I don't think that that is fair.
- When was this video made, the 1950s?!
Nobody-- oh, my god.
That's so stupid!
- But some people just fall in love like that.
Very important people made laws and stuff,
and George Washington and all kinds of different people
who made that free-- you know what I'm saying?
Now it's different now.
So people can do that.
I don't know why people get mad at that.
- (Finebros) Is it okay for people to be mad about a mixed family?
- No, 'cause there's nothing wrong with it.
- No, it's not okay!
- It's just the color of their skin.
What matters is if they're nice or mean.
- That's just messed up.
There's a bunch of mixed race families.
If people really love each other, then they should get married.
- What is this country for?
It's something that starts with an E...
Oh, equality!
Okay, so... why do you do that?
I mean, just 'cause you see a gay couple or something,
it doesn't mean you have to say, "Hey, you're so disgusting!
You're kissing your own gender!"
It's their path, so it really doesn't matter.
♪ (guitar riff) ♪
- (Finebros) Why do you think people would be upset about that?
- I don't know.
- I-- I don't-- I don't get it.
I don't-- I don't get it.
- My brain doesn't wrap around the idea.
Ugh, it's... duh.
- Because they think that their own race is better,
even though it's the same.
- They're racists.
It's just the way they are.
They were probably raised that way.
- Ugh, because people are just racist.
I thought Martin Luther King, you know, spoke against this
and fixed this already.
- Unfortunately, it's still not over from the past.
- People shouldn't judge each other
on the color of their skin, or their religion,
or anything that's different.
You should only judge a person
based on their character and their personality.
- (Finebros) Would you ever think not to marry someone
just because of the color of their skin?
- I think that that's offensive.
- It really does depend on their heart and if they really love me!
- As long as it's a person, it's a person.
It's not like I'm marrying a dog.
- Underneath it, literally, you're the same people.
You have organs-- (giggles)-- and a heart.
- Where I live, it's no big deal.
People with different races and religions,
they all just hang out with each other!
But in other parts of the country,
it's more stuck in the old days and prejudiced.
And it's messed up.
- (Finebros) Have you ever experienced discrimination
or racism in your life? - Mm-mm.
- Um... no.
- Not yet. I'm hoping that I never will,
and I hope nobody will ever.
It's just terrible if you do that.
- It's kind of annoying when people say,
"Eh, you're Asian! That's not fair.
Of course, you could ace that test."
- I have some friends that'd be racist just to be funny,
so just 'cause they do that, I do it back.
I don't find it funny.
They think it's funny 'cause I'm the minority.
They say it. I say it back.
And then we go on to another conversation.
- I know that there is still some racism
in other parts of the world.
I didn't think that it would still, you know, be here.
- (Finebros) The comments on YouTube for this commercial got so bad
they were turned off completely and you can't even read any comments.
What do you think about that? - That's just sad.
- That's good then.
I mean, they're protecting the people in the video.
- It's like the mob mentality kind of thing.
They see the comments, they do it.
It's like monkey see, monkey do.
- Nobody likes an evil, mean, stinking bully.
Nobody likes that because they realize that they don't want
us hanging out with them because they're so mean and rude and nasty.
- You don't need to leave bad comments.
When you have this big pile of some mean things,
I mean, it hurts your feelings.
- Think about those people who are of mixed races and stuff.
They probably feel horrible 'cause of this,
and it's just messed up.
- Why would you waste your time on doing that?
You can just watch another awesome YouTube video.
That's what I do. I waste my life on YouTube!
(laughing)
- So you're wasting your time going on the internet,
going to the comments, and typing some racial slur
for a Cheerios commercial. - (Finebros chuckles softly)
- That's dumb to me.
(clang!) - (Finebros) Truth!
What do you think YouTube can do,
'cause comments on YouTube, there's a lot of bad ones.
What do you think YouTube could do to try to help that?
- They could say at the end, like always,
"If you don't have anything nice to say,
don't say anything at all."
- Censor it?
There's this game I play-- Clash of Clans.
(laughing)
And if you type something like a bad word, like the F word,
it censors it.
- The only way you can comment on YouTube
is if you have an email.
You can probably track that email.
They can just warn them once,
and then, if they do it again, ban them from commenting at all.
- Public sites, in general, you can't control it
because of how many people there are there.
The best thing thing they can do,
if they can do anything at all, they could just shut the whole thing down.
But that would just be sad!
This is what I love doing, and I would hate to see that happen,
but that's really the only thing they can do.
- (Finebros) What do you think about Cheerios
for actually making a commercial like this?
- They're brave. (laughing)
- I'm glad they did that.
Sometimes, in TV, it's unrealistic.
In real life, there's families of all races.
- They should be doing that, no matter how much hate they get.
Don't delete it. (laughs)
- They probably knew this was gonna happen,
but at least they did it.
It definitely will get people mad, but eventually those people
will just realize that it doesn't really matter.
- (Finebros) If someone who's watching this,
who thinks biracial parents is wrong,
what would you want to say to them?
- You people are mean!
- Please don't feel that way.
It's really unfair to a lot of people.
- Just think of their heart!
They could actually be very good people for all you know.
- For any racists, I think you should just drop it.
You might have been taught that way.
That's your parents' fault.
You don't gotta do everything exactly the way they have to.
- (Finebros) And what about anyone watching
that has to deal with racism in their life
or have biracial parents and people give them
a hard time about that? What would you say to them?
- Just stay strong, broski.
- Sticks and stones can break my bones,
but words will never hurt me. (laughing)
- You'll get through it!
Something will happen.
There are lots of people who support it, so...
just ignore them.
- Just know that there are people
that are trying to stop, you know, all the hate.
- I hope you get through all of this because
those mean people out there, they don't deserve anything.
- Guys! Do not care what they say!
You are you!
Stand proud for yourself!
Be happy for your family!
Tell them, "I don't care what you say!
I am the way I am!
And I don't care if I'm Korean and Asian,
or black and white.
I don't care, no matter what!"
- I'm really sorry that you guys have to deal with this 'cause...
(voice wavering) It's really hard for you guys.
(crying softly)
- (Finebros, gently) It really bothers you? - Yeah.
(silence)