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After being featured in a Target ad series, “Founders We Believe In,” the CEO of the natural feminine-hygiene brand Honey Pot Company was unexpectedly hit with criticism — for saying she hoped to create opportunity for black girls with great ideas.
“The
reason why it’s so important for Honey Pot to do well, is so the next
black girl that comes up with a great idea, she could have a better
opportunity,” company founder Beatrice Dixon says in the ad. “That means
a lot to me.”
Apparently this didn’t sit right with a number of
Target’s customers, as the criticism and harassment, Dixon tells Yahoo
Lifestyle, started almost immediately after the commercial’s release —
“first through social media, email, and now Trustpilot reviews.”
Still,
says the ever-positive entrepreneur, “The silver lining in all of this
has been able to see the outpouring of love and support. Even though
we’re getting negative reviews, it’s beautiful that people can feel and
say what they want.”
And do that they did. On customer review site Trustpilot,
Honey Pot received a storm of negative reviews over the weekend,
lowering her average rating to one star. One customer review read, “I
can't support a company in good faith that is openly racist about their
customers.”
Meanwhile, many of the poor reviews included blatantly
racist rhetoric, including, “13% of the population commits 50% of
murders and 80% of all crime. They should empower black women to get
black men to stop raping 10-40 thousand white women per year in the US.
Your entire race is a joke. You commit 25x more crime against white
people than we do against you. 90% of all interracial crimes are
black-on-white. Go back to Africa and feel ‘empowered’ there. No one
wants you here.”
Another review read, “Cheap and terrible product, and probably dindu nuffin,” ending with the racial slur that’s derived from
“a bastardization of the phrase ‘didn't do nothing,’ a plea for
innocence often used in reference to unarmed black men killed by
police,” used to mock black people during numerous protests in 2014 and
2015.
Additionally, numerous reviews associated the products with
the coronavirus, while some complained about the quality of the Honey
Pot’s hair products ー which do not in fact exist.
Luckily, a
flood of support from the Black social media community has since rallied
around the black-woman owned company to counteract those reviews.
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry reportedly aren't bringing Archie to England for their "final round of official engagements."
This will likely be an upset for the Queen, who hasn't had much time with her great-grandson.
If you've been keeping up with the royal fam (and if not, how dare you), you'll know that Queen Elizabeth requested that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle return to England
this month. She wants them to attend the annual Commonwealth Service
with the rest of the royal family, and this trip to the U.K. is expected
to be Harry and Meghan's "final round of official engagements before
returning to their new base in Canada."
Harry arrived in England last week is and is already making appearances, but Meghan is still in Vancouver. And now, according to The Sunday Times, it's expected that Meghan won't bring baby Archie with her when she makes her way across the pond.
And it looks Archie staying behind in Canada is likely "disappointing" for the Queen, as a source previously shared that she was "very sad" that she wouldn't have more time with her great-grandson after Harry and Meghan's move.
The source said, "she will be very sad to have barely seen Archie and
that he will miss out on growing up with his cousins and wider family."
It was also reported that Archie has only met his royal cousins George, Charlotte, and Louis a "handful of times,"
so it's curious that Harry and Meghan aren't taking this opportunity to
give Archie time with his family. That said, I've never had a demanding
schedule of royal events and appearances before, so maybe it's just a
whole lot easier for Meghan and Harry to leave Archie at home where they
won't have to worry about him. Who knows!
