Dream Wired
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop
No Result
View All Result
Dream Wired
No Result
View All Result
Home DramaAlert

Heinz apologizes for two racist ads about Black people

rmtsa by rmtsa
October 8, 2024
in DramaAlert
0
Heinz apologizes for two racist ads about Black people
74
SHARES
1.2k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter


You might also like

Paramount Ahead, But Are There Other Suitors?

Meet the Blue Jays fan knitting a post-season sweater while watching the playoffs

It’s been 10 years since Patricia Arquette’s barnstorming Oscars speech calling for equal pay. She’s ‘sad’ about where things stand now.

Heinz apologizes for two racist ads about Black people

Source: Education Images / Getty

 

After all the egregious race-related faux pas that companies have made over the years, it boggles the mind that an ad so flagrant could get the stamp of approval presumably after numerous c-suite executives and dozens of advertising and marketing people laid eyes on it. At a certain point, it becomes difficult to write such offenses off as “blind spots” and the benefit of the doubt is eclipsed by justified cynicism.

The most recent victim of a racist ideology, whether implicit or explicit, is Heinz. The famed ketchup and tomato product manufacturer is taking fire from outraged social media users who were made aware of an advertisement that Nels Abbey, a writer for The Guardian, flagged while waiting for the train at Vauxhall tube station in London.

The oversized billboard depicts a wedding scene where a Black woman is gleefully eating a forkful of sauce-dripping pasta noodles while her white groom looks on. Also pictured are two older white people who are assumed to be his parents, mother and father. Here lies the rub. The only other person in the picture is an older Black woman who one would reasonably assume represents the Black bride’s mother. However, no father is depicted. This might come across as innocuous to some and others might not think of it at all but what does it say about a company that seemingly tried to inject racial diversity into its messaging and yet still failed to secure the bag?

Abbey took to his experience seeing the ad for the first time and wrote about the dangers of perpetuated stereotypes in society for The Guardian:

Admittedly, the stats on single parenthood look notably vicious for Black communities. The figure in England and Wales increased from 48.5% in 2011 to 51.0% in 2021.

However, in Black communities, the synonymizing of single parenthood with deadbeat fatherhood is an error. As in all communities, it is not uncommon for Black or multi-racial parents to break up or to be unmarried, but it is increasingly unusual for Black fathers not to play a super-active role in the lives of their children. The stereotypes we inherited from yesteryear are yet to be updated and are crowded out by statistics that don’t paint a full picture.

For their part, Heinz apologized for the ad telling The Independent:

“We always appreciate members of the public’s perspective on our campaigns. We understand how this ad could have unintentionally perpetuated negative stereotypes.

“We extend our deepest apologies and will continue to listen, learn, and improve to avoid this happening again in the future.”

However, here’s where we circle back to the part about how difficult it is to extend the courtesy of the benefit of the doubt to these corporate entities. Just days after the wedding ad debacle, Heinz was back “apologizing” for more racist imagery in their advertising…

A white Tik Tok user called @StuffAboutAdvertising took notice of the controversy and got varied reactions from Black folks about their interpretations of the ad.

What say you? How do you feel about these Heinz ads? Are you willing to give the benefit of the doubt that there was no racist intent?

 





Source link

Tags: AdsApologizesBlackHeinzPeopleRacist
Share30Tweet19
rmtsa

rmtsa

Recommended For You

Paramount Ahead, But Are There Other Suitors?

by rmtsa
October 24, 2025
0
Paramount Ahead, But Are There Other Suitors?

Even in an industry increasingly accustomed to head-snapping change, this has been quite a week. After Paramount Skydance made the third in an escalating series of acquisition offers...

Read more

Meet the Blue Jays fan knitting a post-season sweater while watching the playoffs

by rmtsa
October 24, 2025
0
Meet the Blue Jays fan knitting a post-season sweater while watching the playoffs

As the Toronto Blue Jays get ready for the World Series to begin Friday night, one fan has travelled from the United Kingdom to show her support for...

Read more

It’s been 10 years since Patricia Arquette’s barnstorming Oscars speech calling for equal pay. She’s ‘sad’ about where things stand now.

by rmtsa
October 24, 2025
0
It’s been 10 years since Patricia Arquette’s barnstorming Oscars speech calling for equal pay. She’s ‘sad’ about where things stand now.

In 2015, Patricia Arquette’s performance in Boyhood won her the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. In her acceptance speech, she thanked the Academy. She acknowledged...

Read more

Pet Chimp Goes APES*** On Family In Terrifying ‘Primate’ Trailer

by rmtsa
October 24, 2025
0
Pet Chimp Goes APES*** On Family In Terrifying ‘Primate’ Trailer

Turns out, one (murderous) monkey can stop the show Source: Paramount Pictures You may recall a seemingly friendly chimp named Gordy going on a murderous rampage in Jordan...

Read more

‘I Actually Feel Great’ • Hollywood Unlocked

by rmtsa
October 24, 2025
0
‘I Actually Feel Great’ • Hollywood Unlocked

Khloé Kardashian Opens Up About Celibacy and Feeling at Peace Khloé Kardashian isn’t shy about sharing the details of her sex life — or the lack thereof. In...

Read more
Next Post
Diddy Allegedly Appears Alongside Celebs In Sextapes

Diddy Allegedly Appears Alongside Celebs In Sextapes

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Browse by Category

  • Celebrity
  • Comics
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • Music
  • TV
  • Uncategorized

CATEGORIES

  • Celebrity
  • Comics
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • Music
  • TV
  • Uncategorized
No Result
View All Result

Recent News

  • NCIS – Episode 23.04 – Gone Girls – Promotional Photos + Press Release
  • Who Is Alex Vesia’s Wife? About Kayla & Her Marriage to the Pitcher – Hollywood Life
  • New Music Friday: The Alchemist & Hit-Boy, Mac Miller, Lil Baby & More

Copyright © 2023 DramaWired.
DramaWired is a content aggregator and not responsible for the content of external sites.

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Celebrity
  • DramaAlert
  • Gossip
  • Movie
  • TV
  • Music
  • Comics
  • Shop

Copyright © 2023 DramaWired.
DramaWired is a content aggregator and not responsible for the content of external sites.

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In