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LONDON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - A atramentous archetypal who appeared in a Dove advert denounced as racist by abounding amusing media users has dedicated the clip, adage that far from analytical atramentous women it acclaimed indigenous diversity.
Lola Ogunyemi accidentally begin herself at the centre of an all-embracing furore over a 3-second video acquaint on Dove's U.S. Facebook folio which showed her removing her bodice to acknowledge a white woman, who again took chastening off to acknowledge an Asian woman.
"I don't feel it was racist," she said in an account with the BBC on Wednesday.
Many Facebook and Twitter users said the blow signalled that white bodies were cleaner or added admirable than atramentous bodies and likened it to 19th aeon soap adverts that showed atramentous bodies ablution themselves to become white.
But Ogunyemi said the stills from the blow that attempt about the internet over the weekend - which mostly showed alone her and the white woman, abrogation out the Asian woman - gave the amiss impression.
She said there was a 30-second, made-for-TV adaptation that had added images and a byword that fabricated it abundant clearer that the ambition was to say that all women adapted affection products.
"The screenshots that accept taken the media by storm acrylic a hardly altered picture," she said.
Dove apologised for the Facebook clip, adage it had "missed the mark in apery women of colour thoughtfully".
Ogunyemi, who is Nigerian, built-in in Britain and aloft in the United States, said in an commodity in the Guardian that she had "grown up actual acquainted of society's assessment that dark-skinned people, abnormally women, would attending bigger if our bark were lighter".
Far from applicable into this narrative, she wrote, her accord in the Dove advert was a adventitious to "represent my dark-skinned sisters in a all-around adorableness brand".
She said Dove could accept dedicated itself by bigger answer the abstraction abaft the clip.
However, she additionally said that Dove should accept spotted the accident that the arrangement of images could be interpreted as racist accustomed that it had run into agitation over agnate agreeable in the past.
"They should accept able teams there that can point this affectionate of affair out afore it goes to air," she told the BBC.
Dove, a Unilever brand, was criticised in 2011 over an ad which showed three women ancillary by ancillary in advanced of a before-and-after angel of absurd and bland skin, with a atramentous woman on the "before" ancillary and a white woman on the "after" side.
Another point of altercation was a characterization on a Dove artefact that said it was for "normal to aphotic skin". (Reporting by Estelle Shirbon; Editing by Alison Williams)
