Meryl Streep lambasted over 'I'd rather be a rebel than a slave' T-shirts promoting film that critics say white washes the women's suffrage movement

Streep appears alongside co-star Carey Mulligan and others--all white women--in the ads promoting the upcoming film Suffragette
Critics say the T-shirts inevitably bring to mind the Confederacy by pairing the words 'rebel' and 'slave'
Critics also point out that the suffrage movement was at times at odds with the black civil rights movement.
Critics have called the campaign tone deaf, in part because the T-shirts inevitably bring to mind the Confederacy by pairing the words 'rebel' and 'slave', but also because of the uneasy history between the feminist and black civil rights movements.

Shekarie James