A new way to offend someone

Compare her to chocolate.

From here:

Cadbury is facing the prospect of a black consumer boycott after it compared Naomi Campbell to a chocolate bar in a new advertising campaign.

The supermodel – hardly known for taking things in her stride – is incensed that Cadbury used her name in the strap line to promote its new chocolate bar called Bliss, accusing the company of racism. The ad says: “Move over Naomi – there is a new diva in town.”

Yesterday Campbell revealed she is considering “every option available” after Cadbury, owned by the US giant Kraft, refused to pull the ad campaign, which ran in newspapers last week: “I am shocked. It’s upsetting to be described as chocolate, not just for me, but for all black women and black people. I do not find any humour in this. It is insulting and hurtful.”

Is this an example of a someone taking a courageous stand in defence of something I can’t quite put my finger on, or is it yet another spoiled brat model spouting drivel because she is too used to everyone cooing over every banality that falls unassisted by mental exertion from her botoxed lips?

Most people would be grateful if the worst thing that happened to them was to be compared to chocolate.

2 thoughts on “A new way to offend someone

  1. Naomi could probably not trademark the name since it is Biblical in origin. Enya the singer (Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin), however, did trademark the phonetic spelling of Eithne.

    Naomi in Hebrew means Pleasant, but apparently not any more.

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