Here is an original Colonial Penn commercial from 2024 with a white couple talking about the seventy year old marathoner.
https://youtu.be/EXGTeKt1fqw?si=iktgzr6pF9M3Xj6B
And here is a 2025 commercial with a black couple talking about a seventy year old marathoner
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/TfZZ/colonial-penn-sisters-neighbor
Sorry this is the only place I could find the latest commercial. Anyways it's essentially the same commercial except the couples race is switched.
I don't have a problem with this. It's a commercial for a target audience, re-using the script is a cheap cop-out, but otherwise 'meh'.
I DO have a problem with 60% of persons across ALL commercials these days being "of colour" though...
One McDonalds ad had (iirc) 13 people (mostly in the background) and 8 were coloured. Of the 5 White folk? 3 were White women... with a coloured man...
here in Germany tons of commercials also feature mixed couples. always white woman and black/arab man.
there is one where it's different (white man, black woman) and it's for a dating app