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  • 2016-03-02 (xsd:date)
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  • Coca-Cola Isn't Selling a 'Share a Coke with the KKK' Bottle (en)
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  • In March 2016, photos showing a bottle of Coca-Cola with the words share a Coke with the KKK written on its label started circulating online: This is not a real product sold by Coca-Cola. While the Share a Coke campaign allows Coca-Cola drinkers to personalize their cans, some words or phrases (such as KKK) are not available: The image showing the KKK bottle was created for an online petition on the web site Color Of Change, asking the company to pull its sponsorship of the Republican National Convention due to Donald Trump's failure to condemn the KKK in an interview: The petition presupposes both that Coca-Cola will be sponsoring the 2016 Republican National Convention, and that Coca-Cola would be effectively endorsing the Ku Klux Klan by sponsoring the RNC. On 23 February 2016, representatives from the advocacy groups ColorofChange, America’s Voice, CREDO Action, Million Hoodies, MoveOn, and Presente.org admitted as much in an open letter to Coca-Cola and other alleged sponsors of the 2016 RNC: While Coca-Cola did sponsor the Republican National Convention in 2012, the company also sponsored the Democratic National Convention that year: (en)
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