Then, a frame grab from the original video, focusing on the Black woman taking off a T-shirt to reveal a white woman underneath, spread across social media. Dove, a unit of Unilever, said the clip had been conceived as a way to celebrate the beauty in diversity, showing a Black woman morphing into a white woman who then transitions to another woman of colour. Over the weekend, Dove posted and then removed a three-second video from Facebook because some found it racially insensitive. Dove isn’t the only major brand that has drawn criticism over its approach to race in recent months. And there were suggestions online that Dove might have created this latest controversy as a stunt for media attention.

Source: thestar October 10, 2017 15:56 UTC