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| KKK Members, 1928 (Library of Congress) |
Stop any ten people in the United States and ask them what KKK means:
Chances are most will answer, “Ku Klux Klan.”
It seems that the “UK branch of Krispy Kreme” wasn’t thinking along those lines when it named a promotional campaign “Krispy Kreme Klub Wednesdays.”
After advertising these so-called “KKK Wednesdays” on Facebook, “the Hull branch of the doughnut chain” received a lot of agitated feedback.
The Guardian reports that the Facebook page was then removed, and the company issued this statement: Krispy Kreme apologizes unreservedly for the
inappropriate name of a customer promotion at
one of our stores.
All well and good, since the Ku Klux Klan has historically attacked “black Americans… Jews, immigrants, gays and lesbians and… Catholics.”
Resources
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/krispy-kreme-store-in-uk-withdraws-kkk-wednesdays-facebook-ad/ar-BBhFV2B?ocid=ansguardian11
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