African Americans cast in commercials as a token black, but look as clean and Caucasian as possible so that they are more palatable to white viewers. Unlike "colorism" the actor can be very dark skinned, but they will have thinner lips and nose, work an upper tier white collar job, and live in a new spotless home.
They won't be casting Leslie Jones for the reverse mortgage commercial...it's more of a Stacey Dash caucafrican kind of role.
when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.
This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.