If your mom (92) understands the ad, did she say it is racist or not? Inquiring minds want to know!

My mom is of Native American Heritage, with bright Blue eyes. She grew up with worry she would be hung in the barn as a half breed like those before her.

Racist has never been in her vocabulary, we are a multicultural family. So pick a race it’s somewhere in our family tree. Or dust to dust in the Church White, Black, or Red Cemetery.

Still not sure how that relates to the ad. Guess I'll have to watch it.
As to ancestry, history is ugly to everyone at some point. But once I learned that all humanity goes back to Africa, I figured we are all to some degree mixed races, and species. Racism makes no sense. The ones most likely to be only half breed would be Sub-Saharan Africans whose people never left Africa and migrated to the rest of the world.

I would never seen or heard of this ad, much less analyzed it, but suddenly I’m forced to because it’s all over the news and now it’s here. First of all, who cares? Secondly, didn’t Beyoncé do the same thing? Thirdly, Brooke Shields did this way back in the ‘70’s. So I’m back to my first thing.

Different controversies with this and the Brooke Shields add (I don't recall the Beyonce add).

This one has been criticized by some as having a seven-degrees-of-freedom-type connection to the belief in eugenics, racism, and white supremacy. The Brooke Shields ad was criticized for sexualizing a 15 year old.

Only the woke outrage mob. And then only after extensive mental gymnastics to get them to the point of outrage. People with better things to concern themselves with only see an extremely attractive young woman selling blue jeans.

I think I will pass on this one.

"The woke outrage mob"? You're making this up, right? HA! That's hilarious. Now my sides hurt from laughing so hard. Comedy hurts.

Woke is actually what is found all throughout the New Testament especially the Gospels . The Golden Rule and all that .

Agreed, people hating just to hate
Sad

Do not agree with this at all. It’s because people are looking for reason to call racist!
There is nothing wrong with the ad
It’s obvious that she is a beautiful woman because of her genes, not because of any surgeries, not because she dies her hair, not because she put some way too much make up. She’s just simply beautiful and you get simply beautiful like that because of your biological genes.
Don’t fall into the rabbit hole that this was anything more than a play on words Jeans vs Genes……simple

That would be tough, as AE jeans didn't exist in the 70's.

The company started in 1977 as a retail storefront and didn't produce jeans with their name on them, until 1990.

Jeans
 

Looks good to me.

By some people, you mean single white cat ladies. No one else cares.
But in all fairness, even my wife wanted to get into her jeans.