Woman embroiled in racist ad wrong to trash blacks outrage

You know the story. A mom – identified as Kenyan – hawks her black boy to H&M, the Swedish multinational clothing retail giant, for a racist and grotesque ad.  The world explodes in fire and fury. Black parents everywhere are fit to be tied. People of all races and creeds vent their anger on H&M. H&M stores are trashed by angry mobs – most prominently in South Africa.  At first, H&M bloviates, and then pulls the ad. The giant conglomerate apologises. It vows to recycle the “Coolest Kid in the Jungle” hoodies. But damnation doesn’t stop there – customers plan a boycott. Soon thereafter, Donald Trump speaking from the White House calls African states “shitholes.”

As the furor reaches a fever pitch, the mother of the aforementioned black boy tells the enraged world to “get over it.” For clarity, she tells everyone to shut up because she “doesn’t think that way.” I am dumbfounded.  Then – predictably – parents of all races and creeds pile on the now notorious Kenyan mother. They denounce her. Others hurl the vilest insults against her. Yet others tell her she has abdicated her responsibility as a mom. One person excommunicates her from the black race. Most declare her a total disgrace. In the meantime, she laughs all the way to the bank. Meanwhile, the black boy is all but forgotten. Methinks he isn’t old enough to digest the mess.