African American
Related: About this forumPrada Peddling blackface fuckery.
in 2018.
What a half assed apology too.
https://atlantablackstar.com/2018/12/15/prada-pulls-black-sambo-like-characters-from-new-campaign-customers-call-for-boycott/
For its Pradamalia collection, the Italian fashion brand used figurines almost identical to the Little Black Sambo characters, complete with huge red lips, a wide smile and bulging eyes.
Yet, in a statement the company said it didnt realize the figurines looked like blackface, which many found impossible to believe.
oh really?
#Prada Group abhors racist imagery, they added. The Pradamalia are fantasy charms composed of elements of the Prada oeuvre. They are imaginary creatures not intended to have any reference to the real world and certainly not blackface.
But a lot of people werent buying their explanation and called for an immediate boycott.
Shame on you, one person wrote. Disrespect to all people of color who patron you. You should know better. Boycott all that is Prada.
13 December at 19:13 · New York, NY, United States ·
I dont make a lot of public posts, but right now Im shaking with anger.
Today after returning to NYC after a very emotional visit to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture including an exhibit on blackface, I walked past Pradas Soho storefront only to be confronted with the very same racist and denigrating #blackface imagery.
I entered the store with a coworker, only to be assaulted with more and more bewildering examples of their Sambo like imagery.
When I asked a Prada employee whether they knew they had plastered blackface imagery throughout their store, in a moment of surprising candor I was told that *a black employee had previously complained about blackface at Prada, but he didnt work there anymore.*
History cannot continue to repeat itself. Black America deserves better. And we demand better.
Until then please repost and retweet @Prada using the hashtags #StopBlackface #BoycottPrada #EndRacismNow
https://www.facebook.com/chinyereezie/posts/10102198924210054
greatauntoftriplets
(175,799 posts)JHan
(10,173 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,951 posts)I would boycott them...yet could not afford their crap anyway.
3catwoman3
(24,188 posts)This is a whole 'nother level of fugly - attitudinal ugliness.
Hekate
(91,245 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)And it says "Darkie" in Thai.
It is very popular in Asia, you see it everywhere. It owns 75% market share in Taiwan alone.
In 1989 Colgate bought it and changed it to Darlie toothpaste outside of China. I understand it is still called "Black person tooth paste in Chinese.
They tried to change the image over time to make it racially ambiguous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlie
JHan
(10,173 posts)The Polack MSgt
(13,220 posts)Showed me a pic on her phone - "Have you seen this shit? What's wrong with them?"
Look Prada, if a Tokyo native can see it - It is not possible that your employees DID NOT. So I repeat my wife's question -What's wrong with you?
brer cat
(24,718 posts)"imaginary creatures" my ass.
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