Converse Put Out A New Ad. People Say It’s Racist.

What you'll learn

• 1 (01:00) **Ad Controversy Ignites** - Amala introduces the Converse ad that is being called racist and compares the imagery to a KKK lynching.
• 2 (02:41) **Social Media Outrage Spreads** - Amala shares how the accusation is going viral on Threads and TikTok, with millions of views and hundreds of thousands of likes.
• 3 (03:43) **Amala's Initial Reaction and Deconstruction** - She admits she briefly saw the potential for misinterpretation but quickly dismisses it as a hand holding shoes.
• 4 (04:47) **Another Viral TikTok Accusing Converse** - Amala plays a TikTok with 40,000 likes that explicitly calls the ad a "KKK white supremacy lynching dog whistle."
• 5 (06:05) **The Chief Marketing Officer is Black** - Amala introduces Converse's CMO, Rodney Rambo, who appears to be at least partly black.
• 6 (07:56) **The "Obvious" Lynching Imagery Claim** - Amala reads a post calling it "some of the most obvious lynching klan imagery I've seen in a hot minute."
• 7 (08:52) **Amala's Theory: The Victimhood Narrative** - She argues the controversy is driven by a group that needs to find racism everywhere to support a narrative of black perpetual victimhood.

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