{"id":64865,"date":"2018-01-18T13:02:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T18:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=64865"},"modified":"2018-01-16T14:28:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T19:28:13","slug":"south-african-group-trash-hm-store-after-coolest-monkey-in-the-jungle-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=64865","title":{"rendered":"South African Group Trash H&#038;M Store After \u2018Coolest Monkey In The Jungle\u2019 Goes Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>H&amp;M store in South African mall was trashed by angry group.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SOUTH AFRICA \u2014- People are still up in arms over\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bossip.com\/1613222\/hm-got-relentlessly-dragged-for-putting-a-black-boy-in-a-coolest-monkey-in-the-jungle-hoodie\/\">H&amp;M<\/a>\u00a0putting a young black child in\u00a0a green hoodie that said, \u201ccoolest monkey in the jungle.\u201dThe Swedish clothing giant\u00a0lost celebrity partnerships with The Weeknd and\u00a0 G-Eazy, and now they have consumers not only protesting, but completely trashing a store in order to prove their point\u2026and the pictures of the damage are serious.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-64854\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hM-store-trashed-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hM-store-trashed-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hM-store-trashed-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hM-store-trashed.jpg 1032w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Members of an organization known as the Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF) targeted an H&amp;M store at the mall in South Africa on Saturday. EFF\u2019s Donald Mabunda said about the protest, \u201cWe are here to just remind them that the monkeys own this place. We are here to inform them, if you want to undermine the black people in this country, these are the results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>H&amp;M HR manager Randall April\u00a0apologized on behalf of the company outside the store in Canal Walk, Cape Town. He informed those protesting that the\u00a0\u201cCoolest monkey in the jungle\u201c\u00a0t-shirts will be recycled, after which protesters exited the mall singing happily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H&amp;M store in South African mall was trashed by angry group. SOUTH AFRICA \u2014- People are still up in arms over\u00a0H&amp;M\u00a0putting a young black child in\u00a0a green hoodie that said, \u201ccoolest monkey in the jungle.\u201dThe Swedish clothing giant\u00a0lost celebrity partnerships with The Weeknd and\u00a0 G-Eazy, and now they have consumers not only protesting, but completely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}