Dunkin' Donuts apologizes for blackface ad campaign in Thailand

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13. We are the world.

And insist that the world be us.

They have their own problems. Given the history of blackface minstrel shows and African slavery in Thailand, which resulted in a civil war and Jim Crow laws for generations and a pernicious legacy of slavery that results in the near subjugation of the large segment of Thai societ with roots in Africa, I can understand why there should be sensitivity shown.


It's not just blackface. She matches the chocolate. The only thing that's not the same dark chocolate color is her lips. I'm not even sure it's blackface and not digitally altered. Skin, nails, hair. Everything ... to match the result of a wave of dark chocolate.

It's "our" racial stereotype that's at issue. We, fortunately, are not the world. We just like to think we are. Or, rather, that the world is exactly like us. Absurdly parochial. Even of HRW, fighting American anti-black racism in every country they can find it.