Elle Louise

Review of Procter & Gamble

Wonderful company - Thanks for expressing exactly ...

Wonderful company - Thanks for expressing exactly how black people feel without fear. There has been a lot of push back because you have essentially spoke truth to power. You have admitted a reality which many people just want hidden. They would rather black and other people of colour simply dealt with the racism they experiences quietly or simply not mention it at all. It is quite bizarre that pointing out racism becomes racism for many people. It's a form of cognitive dissonance really. Are people saying that when we have the 'talk' with our loved ones, we are supposed to keep it quiet for fear of offending certain people? Or are we supposed to pretend that the 'talk' never happens at all? At the end of the day whether people want to accept this or not - in EVERY single country where black people and other people of colour are minorities they are attacked and killed disproportionately by the police and in every single White majority country where this happens (and it is not just the USA - it is happening in the UK, in Europe, in Australia and New Zealand), black people and other POC are always told that we have done something wrong; that we were to blame; that we are at fault and we are always told that the white officer has done nothing wrong. So this amounts to 100% worldwide innocence for all white police officers. Black people do not need an ad to reveal this to us. The statistics demonstrate that not a single white police officer in any majority white country has EVER been convicted of killing a black person - EVER. This is why we give the talk to our loved ones as statistics demonstrate that even with a video, even with witnesses there is never justice. If white people do not like the ad maybe they need to work towards changing this reality - and since that will never happen, then people will continue to expose the truth.
I will buy more P & G products now. There are over 7 billion people in the world and over 1.4 billion are white people - the rest are not. I am certain you will survive P & G and I wish you well!