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Hello, everybody. Good morning. Today, I want to talk about a topic that I feel like we've kind of forgotten about. And recently it came back to my focus because think it's Bath and Body Works. They re released, I guess, some of their normal sense. Some of the common say it's Bath and Body Works with Kente claw
Dewuan .
@FryedOreoΒ Β·Β 3:19
I'm a sneaker head type of guy and I had never known of this annual thing they did. But there was some LeBron James sneakers, Black History Month edition, Jordan, Black History Month edition, and so on. And I was appalled by, like, what? To me it just looked disgusting. And I guess I have a point of view as a black person where the month has meant different things to me at different points of my life
Darrisha Daniel
@Dee94Β Β·Β 2:49
They're trying to prey on our I hate to say ignorance of the situation, but they're trying to prey on us based on putting out products that look like us so that we will buy them. But also, I don't know, it's a whole thing like it's just very much so targeted and analytical. Like you said, it's nothing to really do with caring about a cause. It's a lot to do with how they look on paper
Swell Team
@SwellΒ Β·Β 0:15
Indy Rishi Singh
@MysticScientistΒ Β·Β 1:12
There's a lot of that with the Indian culture, and it's not surprising. Right. It's just consistent culture of not actually being in service to the cultures we love. Right. And when we're not in service to the people and the culture is, we just extract the culture, but we completely ignore what's happening to that culture. And that's the unfortunate thing. It's just a consistent theme until we collectively acknowledge that. Oh, my
Darrisha Daniel
@Dee94Β Β·Β 1:20
But I think that, yeah, it's a conversation that needs to be had in these marketing circles. It's really sad that it has to be all about money. Like, it can't be about education at all. I don't understand, but this is kind of the world we live in, and it's unfortunate
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