Roland Martin
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WTH Were They Thinking? Ancestry.com Ripped For Ad Romanticizing Slavery
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April 24, 2019
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4:55Now PlayingAncestry.com has pulled an ad widely criticized for distorting and sugarcoating the brutal history of slavery.
The commercial, titled "Inseparable,' shows a young black woman dressed in a flowing cloak running down a dark alley behind a young white man who turns and proposes marriage.
WTH?!? was Ancestry.com thinking?
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