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John McCain’s Son Had the Perfect Response to Racists Who Attacked Old Navy’s Interracial Ad |
Senator John McCain’s (extremely handsome) son Jack had the perfect response to racists who attacked Old Navy’s ad featuring an interracial family. “To the people upset about the #OldNavy #Scandal” of a picture of a mixed race marriage, eat it,” Jack, 30, tweeted on Monday, May 2, along with a photo of him and his wife, Air Force Reserve Captain Renee Swift, who is black.
Moments later, the Navy lieutenant posted a second picture, this time from their 2013 wedding in San Francisco. “I hope this one burns too, you ignorant racists,” he wrote. Then Swift got in on the action, posting a third image of her and Jack. “I was just in @OldNavy this weekend! Bought something for me and my husband. #LoveWins.”
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| Models From Old Navy’s Interracial Family Ad Have Some Words for the Haters |
On Friday, April 29, the retail chain offered a 30 percent discount to its customers in a tweet that featured a gorgeous interracial family (a white father, a black mother and their mixed-race child). The response was shocking. “Absolutely disgusting. What’s next? Gender neutral bathrooms? Pedophilia acceptance propaganda!? Never shopping here again,” fumed one troll, while another chimed in, “Stop promoting miscegenation or else I’m taking my $$$ elsewhere.”
McCain couldn’t help but speak up. “The mere fact that this is a conversation in the year 2016 is disheartening enough, and why this type of response — like the one aimed at Old Navy — merits conversation,” McCain told Navy Times on Tuesday, May 3. “I did not intend for this level of exposure. Mostly, I wanted to take a principled stand on an issue that shouldn’t be one in the first place,” he said. “If there is one result I could hope for out of all of this furor, it would be helping to ensure that intolerance has no place in service, or in our national discourse.”
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