{"id":79246,"date":"2016-05-02T11:47:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T18:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=79246"},"modified":"2016-05-26T15:27:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T22:27:24","slug":"old-navy-receives-backlash-on-interracial-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/old-navy-receives-backlash-on-interracial-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Navy Receives Backlash on Interracial Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You never know how the Internet will react these days &#8212; \u00a0users\u00a0either won&#8217;t care or will fire back with hateful comments. Unfortunately, the latter was the case\u00a0when\u00a0American clothing retailer Old Navy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/internet-absolutely-shuts-down-racist-trolling-of-old-navys-interracial-ad_us_57274df7e4b01a5ebde605b1\" target=\"_blank\">shared a photo<\/a> of an interracial family on Friday to promote a sale.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Oh, happy day! Our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ThankYouEvent?src=hash\">#ThankYouEvent<\/a> is finally here. Take 30% off your entire purchase: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nGQ9Pji1pN\">https:\/\/t.co\/nGQ9Pji1pN<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vq4mIczm6A\">pic.twitter.com\/vq4mIczm6A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Old Navy Official (@OldNavy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OldNavy\/status\/726063493955342336\">April 29, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Many comments were disapproving the photo of the interracial family. One Twitter user noted, &#8220;my family will never step into an @OldNavy store again. This miscegenation junk is rammed down our throats from every direction,&#8221; while another said &#8220;stop promoting miscegenation or else I&#8217;m taking my $$$ elsewhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/static-blog.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/02110824\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-02-at-11.05.52-AM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\" size-full wp-image-79262 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/static-blog.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/02110824\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-02-at-11.05.52-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen-Shot-2016-05-02-at-11.05.52-AM\" width=\"500\" height=\"839\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">However, our faith in humanity was restored once again when Twitter users began to\u00a0reply back to Old Navy&#8217;s tweet with supportive words and even photos of their very own interracial families. And with that\u00a0#LoveWins.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What are your thoughts on Old Navy&#8217;s interracial photo? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"You never know how the Internet will react these days -- \u00a0users\u00a0either won't care or ...","author":422344,"featured_media":79263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[185],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/02111050\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-02-at-11.08.12-AM.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/02111050\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-02-at-11.08.12-AM.jpg","formated_date":"May 2, 2016","category_name":"News","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113842\/news.svg","author_name":"Monica Chang","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#db11d4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}