{"id":775944,"date":"2026-09-19T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/775944\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:28:09","slug":"converse-pulls-deeply-upsetting-advert-after-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/775944\/","title":{"rendered":"Converse pulls &#8216;deeply upsetting&#8217; advert after backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American footwear brand Converse has pulled an advert that social media users said evoked Ku Klux Klan imagery, saying it recognised &#8220;that we got this wrong&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The photo, posted to the company&#8217;s Instagram account, received backlash online after critics described lighting in the image as looking like a white pointed hood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A pair of shoes, dangling in the picture, were also likened to an image of a lynching victim by social media users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In an apology, first issued on Friday, Converse said the photo had been removed from its social media channels and it was working to remove it elsewhere. &#8220;This should not have happened and we will do better,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The statement also said: &#8220;We&#8217;re sorry. We understand why this image is deeply upsetting and recognize that we got this wrong&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American footwear brand Converse has pulled an advert that social media users said evoked Ku Klux Klan imagery,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-775944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}