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Via BPR:

Social media users are losing their heads over a beer commercial, but are they making much ado about nothing?

Chancelor Jonathan Bennett, known professionally as Chance the Rapper, raised awareness of a television advertisement for Heineken beer, which the recording artist called “racist” for its alleged insinuation that “lighter”-skinned people are “better” than blacks.

The commercial depicts a bartender who spots a woman looking down sadly at a glass of wine. He grabs a bottle of Heineken and slides it down the table.

The bottle passes three black people before arriving in front of the woman, at which point the words “Sometimes, Lighter is Better” appear on-screen. The ad ends with a glimpse of the woman laughing with two white men.

Bennet called the TV spot “terribly racist,” and speculated that Heineken and other companies intentionally make controversial ads in order to “get more views.”

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