Shortly after L’Oreal Paris hired transgender British model Munroe Bergdorf for its YoursTruly True Match campaign, the company dropped the model after a now-deleted racist Facebook rant in which she said, “ALL white people” are racist. “L’Oréal champions diversity,” the company said on Twitter. “Comments by Munroe Bergdorf are at odds with our values and so we have decided to end our partnership with her.” L’Oréal champions diversity. Comments by Munroe Bergdorf are at odds with our values and so we have decided to end our partnership with her. “L’Oréal supports diversity and tolerance towards all people irrespective of their race, background, gender and religion,” the brand said in an official statement to TheWrap. “The L’Oréal Paris True Match campaign is a representation of these values and we are proud of the diversity of the Ambassadors who represent this campaign. We believe that the recent comments by L’Oréal Paris UK Spokesperson Munroe Bergdorf are at odds with those values, and as such we have taken the decision to end the partnership with her. L’Oréal Paris remains committed to the True Match campaign and breaking down barriers in beauty.” According to People, the model wrote, “Honestly I don’t have energy to talk about the racial violence of white people any more. Yes ALL white people. Because most of ya’ll don’t even realise or refuse to acknowledge that your existence, privilege and success as a race is built on the backs, blood and death of people of color.” The post, which has since been deleted, according to the report, continued,
Caleb Jenkins
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Ethan Brooks
I ain't circumcised Yank.
Camden Morris
“Your entire existence is drenched in racism. From micro-aggression to terrorism, you guys built the blueprint for this s—. Come see me when you realise that racism isn’t learned, it’s inherited and consciously or unconsciously passed down through privilege. Once white people begin to admit that their race is the most violent and oppressive force of nature on Earth… then we can talk.” On Friday, the model took to Facebook to clarify her comments, stating that her remarks were taken out of context and that the “‘rant’ was a direct response to the violence of WHITE SUPREMACISTS in Charlottesville. It was not written this week.” “When I stated that ‘all white people are racist,’ I was addressing that fact that western society as a whole, is a SYSTEM rooted in white supremacy – designed to benefit, prioritise and protect white people before anyone of any other race,” she wrote. “Unknowingly, white people are SOCIALISED to be racist from birth onwards. It is not something genetic. No one is born racist.” She added that her exit from the campaign is ironic given that “L’Oréal Paris invited me to be part of a beauty campaign that ‘stands for diversity.'” “So when a transgender woman of colour, who has been selected to front up a big brand campaign to combat discrimination and lack of diversity in the beauty industry, speaks on her actual lived experience of being discriminated against because of her race and identifies the root of where that discrimination lies – white supremacy and systemic racism – that big brand cannot simply state that her thoughts are not ‘in line with the ethics of the brand,'” she said. See her entire Facebook post below.
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Write your comment here Submit Show: 10 | 20 | 50 Native_1955 Flag Native_1955 Rank 5166 It is not a 'her'.
Just because you want to be a 'her' doesn't make you a 'her' (if you born with a penis.)
5 minutes ago 000 Likes Like Reply Share crashking Flag crashking Rank 984 How come their words are always " taken out of context" when they're confronted with their postings?
40 minutes ago 333 Likes Unlike Reply Share ptboat Flag ptboat Rank 14034 This is what happens when you fail to read the entire contract you are signing. If you break the rules, they can fire you ass. Maybe this idiot should stop assuming that she is entitled to anything.
1 hour ago 333 Likes Like Reply Share Ranting_Reader Flag Ranting_Reader Rank 75 They hire someone like this, and they don't expect them to have other emotional problems as well? These people by definition are not well adjusted due to their condition. Either cut them some slack, or stop playing at fake compassion. timsfgate Rank 1385 Taken out of context.....my account was hacked....blah, blah, blah...
You felt that way until you realized it was gonna cost you your job and reputation. Deal with it.
3 hours ago 999 Likes Unlike Reply Share vrwc Flag vrwc Rank 6529 L'Oreal, because you're not quite worth it, anymore!
3 hours ago 666 Likes Like Reply Share Bromosecsual Flag Bromosecsual Rank 11503 This guy looks like a chick kind of.
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Jayden Rodriguez
The tide isn't turning, the company just saw that it was going to lose money >Be multibillion $$ corporation that markets heavily to white women >"You know what white women love? Diversity and progress"- woman CEO who spends her day taking photos for Instagram while her gay, male underlings do all the actual jobs >"Lets hire a black transgender. That'll show all those white women that were tolerant" I've also decided that L'Oreal is run by a woman Jew (anyone wanna research that for me?) >hires black transgender xir >Happy to have you on board Treyvonisqua >AYOO HOL UP >*smacks lips* >YOU WUZ SAYIN >*Jewish psychologist signs off that they're mentally stable* >WAIT AYO HOL UP >*Eats watermelon flavoured low calorie crackers* >YOU WUZ SAYIN >*Poses seductively* >AYO HOL UP HOL UP >*Walks down catwalk. Dialator falls out of xirs "vagina"* >YOU WUZ SAYIN >*Demands pay raise for being black* >YOU WUZ SAYIN WE SUPERMODELS N SHEEEEIIT? >Yes you're a supermodel now. You could thank us for our generosity and how white people made all this available to you because if you were in your own country youd have been lynched long ago >*thinks internally* AYO THIS IS ALL ME I DID THIS >AYO FUCK WHITE PEOPLE YOU'RE THE SCUM OF EARTH BLACK PEOPLE RISE UP AND KILL ALL WHITES!
>CEO: this isn't working out
Juan Lewis
>"Once white people begin to admit that their race is the most violent and oppressive force of nature on Earth... then we can talk,"
We don't have anything to talk about. Your 15 minutes are up, time to go away.
Ryder Hall
>the tide is turning
Christian Bailey
Prove it Rabbi.
Colton Wright
Do you work for the company? This is a pretty accurate account of what happened.
Landon Cruz
reeee
Jason Carter
the white middle class libs on twitter who are supporting the freak are fucking sickening
it's like they're admitting to being a racist
Jaxson Rivera
>because you're not quite worth it, anymore! this one is quite funny