EDITORIAL: We need to support more black-owned businesses

Dove and H&M are just a couple of the brands facing backlash for being racially insensitive, given their questionable recent advertisements.

This editorial was originally co-written on behalf of the PantherNOW e-board and was featured in PantherNOW. The editorial focuses on how we need to support black businesses.

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Maytinee Kramer/Opinion Director

Dove and H&M are just a couple of the brands facing backlash for being racially insensitive, given their questionable recent advertisements. Dove featured an ad that, in a play of editing, depicted a black woman removing her shirt to reveal a white woman underneath, which some took as Dove suggesting that “black” was synonymous with “dirty.”

H&M’s mistake was featuring an African-American child in a sweatshirt that read, “Coolest monkey in the jungle,” which spawned uproar because of the use of the word “monkey” to mean a slur against the community the boy represented.

H&M has since removed the apparel from its shelves, and according to The BBC, eBay has even banned it from being sold on its website.

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via We need to support more black-owned businesses

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