The mother of a black child
who was featured in a controversial H&M ad for a hoodie that read, “Coolest
Monkey in the Jungle,” said that people calling it racially insensitive need to
“get over it.”
In a series of
since-deleted Facebook posts, the mom, Terry Mango, of Stockholm, Sweden, said
she didn’t support the backlash over the ad — which even prompted The Weekend
to end his partnership with the brand.
“Am the mum and this is one
of hundreds of outfits my son has modelled,” Mango wrote. “Stop crying wolf all
the time, unnecessary issue here … get over it.”
Mango continued: “If I
bought that jumper and put it on him and posted it on my pages, would that make
me racist? I get pples opinion, but they are not mine.”
In another message, Mango
said she had been to all of her son’s modeling shoots and was with him when he
modeled the hoodie in question.
“Everyone is entitled to
their opinion about this,” Mango wrote. “ … I really don’t understand but not
coz am choosing not to but because it’s not my way of thinking, sorry.”
H&M apologized for the
ad on Monday.
“We’re deeply sorry that
the picture was taken, and we also regret the actual print,” the company said
in a statement. “Therefore, we’ve not only removed the image from our channels,
but also the garment from our product offering.”
The statement continued:
“It’s obvious that our routines haven’t been followed properly. This is without
any doubt. We’ll thoroughly investigate why this happened to prevent this type
of mistake from happening again.”
NBA megastar LeBron James
and Manchester United forward Romelu Lukaku are among the many who spoke out
against the ad.
“We as African Americans
will always have to break barriers, prove people wrong and work even harder to
prove we belong but guess what, that’s what we love because the benefits at the
end of the road are so beautiful!” James wrote in a post showing the boy
wearing a crown accompanied by the words “King of the World.”
Which kin mother bi this?
ReplyDeleteWell you have a point but people are also entitle to their own opinion
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