Nivea Pulls Ad and Apologizes
Boiling over on Twitter this afternoon are claims that a print ad for Nivea's "Give a Damn Campaign" is racist. It features a clean-shaven black man getting ready to toss away his scraggly unshaven head and the words "Re-Civilize Yourself." The debate is being helped along by any number of sites, including Clutch, The Root and Huffington Post, all of which have posed a version of the question "Is this ad racist?" along with a photo of the ad (at left). http://www.carbonated.tv/lifestyle/nivea-recivilize-advert-pulled-racist-or-not This be rayciss This is OK because the model is White