L’Oréal has sacked its first transgender model, hired to front its diversity campaign, after she spoke out against racism in western society by declaring that “all white people” are racist. Munroe Bergdorf, 29, is a black model, DJ, and transgender rights activist and was hired by L’Oréal less than a week ago. She appeared in promotional material describing her as “the face of modern diversity”. It emerged this week that the model had posted comments on Facebook in response to white supremacist marches in the US, in which she said that the success of western society was built on the slave trade. She argued that there was an inherited sense of privilege among white people and said: “Honestly I don’t have energy to talk about…

Source: The Times September 01, 2017 16:07 UTC