PDS 12.19 The Wakanda Forever 21 Controversy & Backlash, Will Smith Genie, Kylie Jenner, & More
The Philip DeFranco Show
philip defranco
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So be a beautiful bastards, hope you've been a fantastic Wednesday. |
| 0:03.0 | Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show and let's just jump into it. |
| 0:06.5 | The first thing we're going to talk about today is an old school classic because it's |
| 0:09.4 | somewhat company or people angry about today news and today that is Forever 21. |
| 0:14.0 | And it appears to stem all from them tweeting this Wakanda Forever, |
| 0:17.6 | get the sweater here featuring this male model. |
| 0:19.9 | And following this, some people just thought it was kind of funny. |
| 0:21.8 | With tweets like Forever 21 really got the payless person they could find a model of |
| 0:25.3 | Wakanda Forever sweater. |
| 0:26.5 | I'm crying. |
| 0:27.2 | Although some seemed actually annoyed and angry. |
| 0:29.6 | The responses like, in what universe did you think it was okay to feature a white model in |
| 0:33.0 | Wakanda gear granted chances are you knew it wasn't okay but still as a |
| 0:36.2 | former 21 men brand specialist for the company I'm highly offended others |
| 0:39.3 | saying it's insulting forever 21 is canceled but also on the other side of, we saw people saying that there's nothing to be angry about here. |
| 0:45.2 | With comments like, so does this mean Black people shouldn't be wearing almost any other |
| 0:48.3 | superhero merchandise because the vast majority of them are white? |
| 0:51.1 | And no other race wear Black Panther merch. The main point, following all of this |
| 0:54.3 | Forever21 deleted the post. They also remove photos of the model in the sweater on the site. They also still left the sweater up and they issued an |
| 1:01.2 | apology saying, Forever21 takes feedback on our products and marketing extremely seriously. |
| 1:05.2 | We celebrate all superheroes with many different models of various ethnicities and |
| 1:08.5 | apologize if the photo in question was offensive in any way. |
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