So retail giant H&M recently opened branches in Cape Town and Johannesburg South Africa and a South African blogger Tlalane Letlhaku noticed a trend with H&M's all white models and commented on H& M's Twitter page saying that “most, if not all your posters in store have no black models” and to “please work on that to appeal to everyone,”. H&M's response to Letlhaku's comment got everyone riled up. Read the exchange/comments below:
The fact that H&M said they were trying to convey a positive message to the blogger's complaint having posters with no black model, didn't go down well with anyone. Read more comments..
None of my business.... Up golden eaglets
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DeleteAwww... this racist thing never fades away tho!
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At all. Not justful
ReplyDeleteFrom my knowledge, HnM have a lot of black staffs, so I don't know what you talking about. Having only white models has nothing to do with racism.
ReplyDeletestaff first lol, and there only workers which is the bottom, the models are at the top. who do you think gets paid more. you know how many companies own places in the hood that doesn't mean there not racist
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Hahahaha, horrible Soc Med H&M people. When they won't hire right. We are here 247, dey won't hire us.
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Africans only understand racism when it happens to them. Had this occurred in the US, LIBers would tell the complainants to get over it. There are white South Africans after all.
ReplyDeleteThey get away with it in Nigeria
ReplyDeleteThe lady wants to see more black models cos she doesn't like white models? Is she a racist as well? Is color skin a big deal?
ReplyDeletePeople get wahala
ReplyDeleteDey just killed their Brand in SA. Yeye people, positive image my foot. Linda take note!
ReplyDeleteDey just killed their Brand in SA. Yeye people, positive image my foot. Linda take note!
ReplyDeleteNow this is definitely racist...whoever is in charge of their twitter handle should be fired! Very rude
ReplyDeleteI choptas not. No be today.
ReplyDeleteBut the lines in front of the Sandton mall's H&M were still as long as fuel scarcity lines in Nigeria with a good chunk of customers black.
ReplyDeleteGuess who had the biggest shopping bags??.... Wait for it... *drumrolls* black girls who are economically one the poorest quadrants in SA's economy.
It's time for all black people to rethink their priorities.
South Africans should boycott their stores and send a positive image.
ReplyDeleteBlack are too damn sensitive. These campaigns are not tailor made for each continent they have a store in. That's what they are trying to say that it's a global fashion brand. Their campaigns are put in all their stores worldwide irrespective of continent, they would not have a campaign for SA only to appease the people.
ReplyDeleteThey should hire a good PR what the fuck is this idiot handling their twitter account on about? When the Lady asked about the poster he should have just said they're working on that and let everyone chill. smh
ReplyDeleteThats why all our Model queens go into oblivion fast
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ReplyDeleteBlacks shouldn't buy H&M.
ReplyDeleteThose who make racial comments should be banned from further investments in Africa.
ReplyDeletetalk about digging your own grave!!!! lol
ReplyDeleteu gotta love social media in this age, its the judge, jury and executioner all rolled up in one...... the sad thing about it tho is that even with all this ''rant'', pple will still go shop there (even the offended black pple).
i dont think anyone shd get away with being racist regardless of the ''success' of ur brand
Don't you just love the way people deal with these racist mofos on social media!
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First tweet read "1/4", meaning tweet 1 of 4. We didn't get a chance to read the rest before it was misconstrued.
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