CHAPTER 12
BRAND SENSATIONS
“I felt enraged. I felt flabbergasted. I felt confused,” fumed Chinyere Ezie, a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, on Twitter.
It wasn’t anything that anybody had said to her. It was what she saw in the Prada store window in the SoHo neighborhood of lower Manhattan that left her shaking to her core in anger. And that was a $550 Pradamalia character, the latest in the line of keychain figurines, that looked like a black monkey with outsized red lips.
She took a picture, posted it on her Twitter feed and Facebook page, and lit up a firestorm. Her post went viral, building a tsunami of outrage as people around the world saw in the fantasy charm, an obvious resemblance to “blackface,” an odious image ...
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