Analysis Of Racism And Police Brutality

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The first news story we found that was very important about Pepsi was this past April Pepsi created an Ad with Kendall Jenner ending racism and police brutality with a Pepsi. In the Pepsi commercial, it shows that Kendall offers the police officer with a cool drink opening his eyes to the all the racism and oppression to the black community. With this commercial Pepsi trying to symbolize a global message of unity, peace, and understanding. Which quickly backlash because lot of people got offended because Kendall Jenner can’t relate with police brutality. Police brutality is a serious top in United States and Pepsi made it look like all it took to stop police brutality was just one Pepsi drink. This offended lots of Pepsi customers which lead

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