Ancestry Pulls Runaway Slave Focused Ad After Backlash
Ancestry.com is pulling an ad that focuses on a runaway slave fleeing with her lover to the north. People critical of it slam it for “glamorizing a traumatic experience”. They better not ever release their Mongolian raider commercial then.
Read more at dailymail.co.uk.
Where @Ancestry . Com white washes the centuries long rape of black women by white supremacist slave owners & pretends it was a romanticized love story so they can now get your DNA to sell to marketing companies ?
Smh beyond ridiculous & tone deaf.pic.twitter.com/EbmnQ3uEqC
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) April 19, 2019
Read More Stories From the IB Wire
.
.
