There are some Italian soccer fans who scream racist taunts at black players. In 2014 there was an incident where Atalanta fans threw bananas at two black players on the Milan team. Italy has its own history of racism.

Google sambo.  Then come try to sell that “hot take” here.

diversify is Key.

Italy–sad to say as a guy who’s 25% Italian–has some pretty virulent racism:

Definitely. Here is a quick google image search for ‘balaclava with designs’ which shows a lot of balaclavas with designs, and the only one that looks like blackface is when you get down to to ‘Gucci apologizes for...’ images. (Yes, most of the images are quite terribly ugly, but not offensive from a racial…

It’s a black pullover sweater with a mouth cut out with big red lips over the cut out.

I just read an article about cities adopting a policy of considering the implications of racism in its public policy decisions. It sounds like a good idea for the private sector as well.

Apparently, yes, because there is a matching mask. 

THIS!

“There can sometimes be a lack of generosity but, on the other hand, how can we know all cultures? The Chinese protest, then the Sikh, then Mexicans, then Afro-Americans. But how can you know the details of each single culture so well when there can be 100 different cultures in every country?”

Your opinion is trash, though. People are not “looking for racism everywhere.” The first thing I thought of when I saw that photo was how obviously it resembled blackface. The fact that you’re more upset with people noting that resemblance says more about the kind of person you are than it does about us.

Reading your description, I was thinking “ok, a black sweater with red trim around the collar - that does seem like stretching it”.

I am trying my best to figure out when and where one would wear this uglass sweater. The heist? And WHO would wear it?

Another vivid example of why brands miss out when they do not place people of color in the room. What ever those salaries would be, they would still add up to a fraction of the downside loss they would prevent from happening such as cases like this Prada and D&G.

gucci’s old lady kitsch was cute to a point, and now michele has hoenstly just over done it

I’m more offended by how ugly it is.

I just had a collection of racist ceramic ware, books, recordings, artwork passed on to me from “yon olden times.” The past is...not even past. 

Oh, lord help my bank account, new sets from Mother. If you haven’t tried the Lip Fetish color balms, you should, I think Wild Cherry or Ultra Vixen would be right up your alley. I find them to be much more comfortable than the lipsticks with almost as good a color payoff. 

Maybe “black-owned” is only one piece of it. i got to thinking again about what Devin McGhee said in Glamour about the need for women of color in leadership positions at beauty companies. That should include the big publically traded ones as well. There should be legislation or at least public pressure for all…

This is ... certainly an idea.