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‘Delete your company’: Internet scalds Pepsi and Kendall Jenner for co-opting Black Lives Matter in new ad
April 4, 2017 5:57PM ET
Kendall Jenner (Pepsi)
On Tuesday, Pepsi released a remarkable ad featuring Kendall Jenner diffusing an escalating protest with a can of delicious cola. The ad paid homage to the famous Reuters photo featuring a black woman peacefully facing off with police in full riot gear.
The company’s blatant co-opting of a movement that campaigns against systemic racism towards black people lit up the Internet: