In the genealogy company’s commercial, a white man gives a black woman a ring and says they can ‘escape to the north’
Ancestry.ca, the Canadian outpost of the genealogy site Ancestry.com, has taken down an ad that was criticized for appearing to romanticize slavery. It was deemed an irresponsible retelling of an already reprehensible history.
ooooh my god LMAOOO who approved this ancestry commercial??? pic.twitter.com/Isy0k4HTMA
White man: you can’t sit here!
Rosa parks: why not?
White man: because you already have a place......in my heart.
*ancestry dot com logo with a soft fade out*
Oh for f---
This is the work of @AncestryCA.
No, Canada didn't have blatant anti-miscegenation rules on the books, but anti-miscegenation was enforced.
By the Klan. Which Canadian municipalities allowed to operate in broad daylight (when they weren't handing them charters) https://t.co/rkiPxMddek
One of the most troubling things about this is that Ancestry (and/or their agency) probably think this ad is "celebrating diversity."
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