Did you see the latest ad for Dove Beauty Bars?
You can tell me that no one at Unilever, whether in corporate or the marketing group, and no one at the ad agency, noticed that the sequence below, showing a Black woman morphing into a “beautified” White woman just might be seen as racist:
Just as you can tell me that no one noticed it in this 2011 ad either:
But I won’t believe you.
Are these people nuts? My two grandchildren, aged 10 and 7, would have picked up on this in one second flat. But no one in corporate or advertising did?
Yeah, right. And the cow jumped over the moon.
Are the people in charge of Dove Beauty Bars racists? Just plain stupid? Both?
I don’t know the answer. Maybe you do. Either way, if I were in charge, there would be people looking for new employment because of it.
