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Forever 21 Issues Apology For Hiring White Model To Sell ‘Black Panther’ Wakanda Sweater
The Atlanta Black Star ^ | December 19, 2018 | Daryl Nelson

Posted on 12/24/2018 8:16:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

The clothing chain Forever 21 said they were sorry for hiring a white model to sell its new “Black Panther” sweater, which has the words “Wakanda Forever” on the front.

Of course, the film “Black Panther” broke ground, not only in the box office, but for being the first Black superhero movie to get major studio backing. The predominantly Black cast was also a different look for a superhero film, so many believed the person who modeled the sweater should’ve been Black....

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Business/Economy; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: afrofuturism; blacknationalists; blackpanther; blackseparatists; endwhiteshaming; forever21; liberalbigots; marvel; racism; revisionisthistory; wakandaforever; waronwhites
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1 posted on 12/24/2018 8:16:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So they don’t want any white people to buy the sweater?


2 posted on 12/24/2018 8:18:54 PM PST by CondorFlight
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Apology. Big mistake


3 posted on 12/24/2018 8:20:32 PM PST by albie
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Where are the apologies from blacks playing white people, or doing the voices of white animated characters? Keegan michael Key did voicing for a white animated character on the series Super Mansion.

Where’s the apologies?


4 posted on 12/24/2018 8:20:40 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Can they farm it out to a HB1 Indian model?


5 posted on 12/24/2018 8:23:50 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's fore sure)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
> Forever 21 Issues Apology For Hiring White Model To Sell ‘Black Panther’ Wakanda Sweater <

Well, sure. And Hogan's Heroes should apologize to the Nazis for putting Kinch in a Wehrmacht uniform.


6 posted on 12/24/2018 8:24:39 PM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

“Where are the apologies from blacks playing white people”

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Like the entire cast of “Hamilton”.

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7 posted on 12/24/2018 8:26:28 PM PST by Mears
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s dumb and cowardly. Get ready to have your chain collar jerked this way and that way at the whims of PC people. Most of the complainers wouldn’t be buying your clothing anyway.
They just like complaining, for some as a hobby, for others as a ‘spiritual crusade’.


8 posted on 12/24/2018 8:27:28 PM PST by lee martell (AT)
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To: Leaning Right

Dig those sideburns!


9 posted on 12/24/2018 8:40:50 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

But yet the play “Hamilton” is praised...


10 posted on 12/24/2018 8:47:37 PM PST by 2banana (Were you)
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To: Deaf Smith

“Can they farm it out to a HB1 Indian model?”

MMmmmmmmm...depends on his skin lightness/darkness ratio, I suppose.
And aren’t they norming binary sexism? Why a male model instead of a fat, angry gender-questioning lesbian feminist model?


11 posted on 12/24/2018 8:50:19 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Of course, the film “Black Panther” broke ground, not only in the box office, but for being the first Black superhero movie to get major studio backing.

Blade says, “Hi.”


12 posted on 12/24/2018 8:50:51 PM PST by Rastus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I guess it is not going to be a white Christmas.


13 posted on 12/24/2018 8:51:53 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: Secret Agent Man

David Oyelowo played a white Imperial in Star Wars Rebels.


14 posted on 12/24/2018 8:52:28 PM PST by Rastus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

When are TV marketers going to apologize and acknowledge that people of color do not make up 75% of the population?


15 posted on 12/24/2018 8:56:56 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: albie

Never apologize to bullies.


16 posted on 12/24/2018 9:03:15 PM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Leaning Right

I forgot about that HH bit.


17 posted on 12/24/2018 9:17:01 PM PST by wally_bert (We're low on dimes in fun city.)
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To: CondorFlight
So they don’t want any white people to buy the sweater?

I have a feeling, that many of them, don’t want white people around, for any reason. 👎

18 posted on 12/24/2018 9:54:20 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD.... And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: CondorFlight

I’d go with they don’t want White people to shop with them, if I had a young daughter I wouldn’t let her. Let them make their money of Blacks and Hispanics.


19 posted on 12/24/2018 9:54:28 PM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Liberals are putting whites as the new Jews.


20 posted on 12/24/2018 9:57:27 PM PST by inchworm
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