Photo courtesy of Brodie 319, Wikipedia The popular beer company Heineken has come under fire for their new ad promoting a new light beer. It starts with a fair-skinned bartender fawning over an Asian woman. He proceeds to slide a beer down the bar passing in front of a black […]
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Fraternity’s Racist Song Sparks Media Attention
Photo courtesy of Andrew Goidell, Wikimedia Commons After mainstream media caught wind of two viral videos in which fraternity members chanted a racist song last week, the University of Oklahoma expelled Parker Rice and Levi Pettit, the students identified as having initiated the chanting, on Tuesday. The videos were recorded on […]
Zendaya Hair Comment Sparks Debate on Appropriation
Photo Courtesy of Disney, Flickr Creative Commons On Feb. 23, Giuliana Rancic, a commentator on the show “Fashion Police,” made a comment about Zendaya’s Oscar hairstyle, saying “I feel like she smells like patchouli oil or weed” while referring to the actress’s locks (commonly known as dreadlocks). Zendaya responded saying […]