(AllHipHop News) Dunkin’ Donuts faced an onslaught of negative criticism over their recent advertisement featuring a woman in blackface.
After the Human Rights Watch and thousands of consumers attacked the campaign, the chief communications officer for Dunkin’ Brands, Karen Raskopf issued an apology to the New York Daily News:
On behalf of our Thailand franchise and our company, we apologize for any offense it caused. We are working with our franchaisee to immediately pull the television spot and to change the campaign
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While Raskopf expressed the sorrowful sentiments of Dunkin Donuts, Dunkin Donut’s Thailand CEO Nadim Salhani expressed his own outrage over the racist accusations to Bangkok Post:
It’s absolutely ridiculous. We’re not allowed to use black to promote our doughnuts? I don’t get it. What’s the big fuss? What if the product was white and I painted someone white, would that be racist?
(AllHipHop News) T.I. denied entry into the United Kingdom even though he was slated to perform with Lady Gaga in London over the weekend.
The pair were to be a major feature at the iTunes Music Festival, but Tip hit a snag that Gaga told the crowd while she was on stage.
Gaga’s new song, “Jewels & Drugs,” features T.I. Too $hort and Twista, but Tip’s portion was played in a video from the stage.
Onstage, Gaga yelled, “From across the pond, T.I.! They wouldn’t let him into the country, poor thing.”
T.I. managed to rap his verse.
The exact reason why he was not allowed into the country was not publicly disclosed.
T.I. did experience a victory as his most recent album Trouble Man: Heavy Is the Head was recently certified gold. It was released December of 2012.
Wale still showing the gifts from his last album The Gifted with the video for his collaboration with Juicy J and Nicki Minaj, “Clappers”.
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