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The Internet is going crazy over the latest State Farm ad, which shows a Black man proposing to a White woman. The ad prompted viewers to protect their wedding jewelry with State Farm insurance, but people weren’t talking about insurance protection after viewing the viral commercial.

Racist Twitter users went in on the stock photo used by State Farm, saying things like:

https://twitter.com/Zorost1588/status/812531689696075776

https://twitter.com/mc_morn/status/812526862811467777

Although some users went so far as to threaten to boycott the agency over the photo, there were also people who supported the message of the pic:

The controversial photo was posted on December 21st and already has over 7.5K retweets and likes.

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State Farm Ad Receives Racist Backlash For Featuring Interracial Couple  was originally published on globalgrind.com