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The "stereotype" is real.
72% of black babies in the U.S. are born out of wedlock.
That's the real problem, not some ad from a ketchup company.
Source for that statistic: Blacks struggle with 72 percent unwed mothers rate
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Heinz apologises after ad featuring black family sparks anger online
Firm accused of stereotyping in advert spotted at Vauxhall and Manor House tube stations in London
6 Oct 2024
Heinz has apologised after an advertisement displayed in London tube stations featuring a black family sparked anger online.
The US manufacturer, which recently launched an ad campaign for family-sized pasta sauces, was criticised for promoting stereotypes in a billboard advertisement spotted at Vauxhall and Manor House stations.
The advertisement depicts a bride, a black woman, enjoying a forkful of pasta seated next to a white man who is presumably the groom. The billboard appears to show the groom’s white parents and an older black woman, seemingly the bride’s mother.
Some social media users criticised the advert for “erasing” black fathers.
The author and Guardian contributor Nels Abbey wrote on X: “‘For my brothers with daughters.’ Because believe it or not, Black girls have Dads too.” The post has since gone viral.
72% of black babies in the U.S. are born out of wedlock.
That's the real problem, not some ad from a ketchup company.
Source for that statistic: Blacks struggle with 72 percent unwed mothers rate
Heinz apologises after ad featuring black family sparks anger online
Firm accused of stereotyping in advert spotted at Vauxhall and Manor House tube stations in London
web.archive.org
Heinz apologises after ad featuring black family sparks anger online
Firm accused of stereotyping in advert spotted at Vauxhall and Manor House tube stations in London
6 Oct 2024
Heinz has apologised after an advertisement displayed in London tube stations featuring a black family sparked anger online.
The US manufacturer, which recently launched an ad campaign for family-sized pasta sauces, was criticised for promoting stereotypes in a billboard advertisement spotted at Vauxhall and Manor House stations.
The advertisement depicts a bride, a black woman, enjoying a forkful of pasta seated next to a white man who is presumably the groom. The billboard appears to show the groom’s white parents and an older black woman, seemingly the bride’s mother.
Some social media users criticised the advert for “erasing” black fathers.
The author and Guardian contributor Nels Abbey wrote on X: “‘For my brothers with daughters.’ Because believe it or not, Black girls have Dads too.” The post has since gone viral.
