Dear black child, you wake up to too much every single day. Do not lose heart. It won’t be like this forever. We are here to reclaim our dignity one ad at a time. Kind regards a fellow black child. This is a short letter to all black people and the future black child. We won’t always have the most disturbing and antagonising adverts, brought on by agencies and creative directors who feel they can do whatever they please in their positions power. Whilst it’s said that Dove has made a distasteful advert apparently it’s not the first time. Six years prior to this advert they had another racist and disgusting advert. Meaning that six years ago we might not have been as “woke” as we are now, since we don’t remember dragging them on Social Media. But I would much rather think we were not as vocal as we are today. We were still in our passive slumber and not willing to unpack racism as we are now. Now we see people writing books and realising albums depicting the very essen...
I was always told that I have a big mouth. Now I'm putting all that big talk to good use. Watch the space.