Lola Ogunyemi, the model that outraged social media users felt was denigrated in an ad for Dove soap, said the ad wasn’t racist at all.
Ogunyemi explained that the screenshots of the longer, 30-second TV ad confused the context and made the ad seem like something it wasn’t. The pictures posted to social media show Ogunyemi lifting her shirt and transforming into a white model. Since Dove is advertising soap, the public interpreted the ad as indicating a black person would turn clean and white after using the soap, the New York Post reported.
