Kirsten West Savali writes for The Root “While all of the girls are adorable and, indeed, all of them should grow up to be and do anything, it becomes problematic when the black child is positioned to be a white child’s prop.

“It matters that this kind of obliviousness to historical context and intergenerational trauma is being etched onto the bodies of black children, who will become black adults forced to navigate a society that willfully confuses cultural visibility with institutional and systemic equity.”

The problem isn’t just that they’ve picked one black girl to be in the ad and made her a prop – but it’s that there wasn’t someone in the boardroom at Gap who thought it was wrong.