The main attraction for visitors is, of course, the famous falls, at the brink of which sits Niagara Parks' most-visited attraction, Table Rock Centre -- a comples which houses restaurants, gift shops, and "experiences" such as "Jouiney Behind the Falls" and "Niagara's Fury", the latter a Disney production.
Entrance to the Parks is free. It's by the "experiences" that they get you. (Did I mention the gift shops?) Niagara's Fury -- a Disney-produced movie projected on curve screens that surround the viewer -- opened in 2008. It was getting a little long in the tooth so was closed last season, to be replaced by a new and even more wonderful attraction called "Niagara Takes Flight".
What you see below is a screen shot from the recently-released promotional video.
Niagara Falls is still "the honeymoon capital of the world", or so the tourism hucksters would have us believe. How better to illustrate that idea than with a picture of a happy couple in a romantic pose. A bi-racial couple, of course, because this is the Age of Woke. Portraying races mixing effortlessly and happily, in perfect harmony, is the vision of reality at the core of the woke, anti-racist, we're-all-the-same-under-the-skin canon.
It's not just Niagara Parks. If you watch TV or streaming services or anything of that nature, you'll see couples like this more times than you can count, in much greater proportion than their existence in the reality of Western society. We are encouraged to believe that iner-racial coupling is normal... or should I say "more normal" than the old-fashioned, pre-woke idea of sticking to your own kind.
Did you notice that this couple consists of a black -- well, brown actually, not too black -- man and a very white woman. [Well, she could have been blonde! Ed.] This too is very normal. Roughly 99.44% of bi-racial couples you see in TV commercials looks like this. The other 0.56% are the other way `round -- white man and black woman.
Walt's innocent question: Why is this? Do the creators of these fantastical videos not know that for decades sociologists have been studying and bemoaning the complaints of black women that so many black men "marry out", preferring white women to women of colour? Many black women have told researchers that they feel they can't compete with women who look like the ones in the picture.
To make matters worse (for black women), a lot of black men don't care what the white woman looks like as long as she likes... really likes... black men, to the point of doing anything... anything... to get one.
You don't believe me? Take a look at the real world as seen on TV newscasts. If you watch a story about a black(ish) or mulatto kid who was either the victim or the perpetrator of a crime, you've got a better-than-even chance that the baby momma standing by home because "he's a good boy, just trying to get his life together and become a rap artist" will be a rotund white woman. Where, you may wonder, is the kid's father? Long gone, Jackson!
But hey, that's just the difference between the fake world of advertising (Why do those bi-racial couples always live in a better house than mine?) and the real world in which you and I live. All the affirmative action and DEI in the world ain't gonna change that.
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