On Saturday, Dove apologized for a body wash advertisement that many on social media perceived as racist. Now, the model featured in the ad has weighed in with a more complicated perspective on the story.
In an op-ed in The Guardian, model Lola Ogunyemi expressed her dismay that she'd become "the unwitting poster child for racist advertising."
In the ad, Ogunyemi removes a brown shirt, which reveals a white woman in a cream shirt underneath. Some understood the narrative of the ad as a sort of before and after, implying that Ogunyemi is the dirty "before," and the white woman the clean "after." This is a troubling and not unfounded comparison, given the history of racist advertisements that some on Twitter compared it to. Read more...
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