An American public relations company is under fire after it used a picture of a Kenyan woman with a child to campaign for a 2020 presidential candidate.
Ryan Grim, the Bureau Chief for The Intercept, blasted the PR company contracted by presidential contender Peter Buttigieg for using the photo.
“On top of everything else, the Buttigieg campaign used a stock photo from Kenya to promote its Frederick Douglass Plan for Black America,” Grim tweeted.
Grim went ahead to tag Nicholas Githiri, the Kenyan photographer behind the photo used in Buttigieg’s manifesto.
Twitter user, Jodi Jacobson said: “This is worse than lazy.”
@Clarknt67 noted: “A trained visual arts professional reads the metadata in an image before posting. This is not rocket science.”
“Spin: Mayor Peye is the only candidate whose Black outreach went all the way to Africa. lol,” Tuxedo Mask wrote.
James Baker joked: “He’s talking in terms of the Diaspora…”
Buttigieg, who has been the mayor of South Bend in Indiana since 2012, is a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination in the 2020 US presidential election.
This accusation does not…
This accusation does not make SENSE to say the least. And if it does, then the Ryan Grim’s complaint’s aim is Extorion: “the practice of obtaining something, especially money, through force or threats” and even concoction of Pain and Gain (from the Buttigieg campain). Spot seems Ryan Grim seems up to Easy money.