She isn’t Hillary Clinton.
Via Raw Story:
A white gubernatorial candidate in Georgia faces mounting criticism over a campaign advertisement that features her face fading into a photo of Martin Luther King, Jr.
As The Root reported Thursday, Democratic state representative Stacey Evans’ ad, which centers on her visiting King’s childhood church in Atlanta, the has been accused of being tantamount to blackface.
In the ad, Evans speaks with parishioners at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta’s Sweet Auburn neighborhood, eventually culminating in the offensive fade-in before cutting to her campaign slogan, “Bringing HOPE back to Georgians.”
Evans, who was reportedly not authorized to film inside Ebenezer but did anyway, has been summarily dissed for the misstep.
“You have no diversity on your team & apparently don’t understand its value,” CNN commentator and former South Carolina state legislator Bakari Sellers tweeted along with a link to the “tone deaf” ad.