Vogue cover controversy? Huh?
Writing by Jana on Thursday, 27 of March , 2008 at 7:46 am
I don’t get it.
Is it because I’m white? Or because I’m Canadian?
The LeBron James and Gisele Vogue cover for April is stirring up quite the controversy as some dissenting voices claim it promotes racism. Or something along those lines, I’m a little confused.
What the fuck? I mean come on.
I know that Canada has its own racial issues as much as we love to promote ourselves as the most “multicultural” and “diverse” nation in the world when that reality only exists in Toronto and other big cities. But American race relations freak me right out in the way they’re portrayed in the media and through bullshit like this.
If Lebron were clutching Oprah or Beyonce, would it still be racist? Or is it the image of the white woman juxtaposed with a big black man that makes people even take notice of this?
Lebron looks like he’s having fun; not like he’s about to bust a cap in my ass.
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Comment by Soleil Noir
Made Thursday, 27 of March , 2008 at 10:36 pm
Agreed. I don’t get that impression at all from the cover. But then again, I’m also not an American. *rolleyes* And just when you begin to think things like this are long-gone from even being an issue. Oi.
Comment by Jana
Made Friday, 28 of March , 2008 at 1:33 pm
Well it’s just weird. And if a bunch ofblack people are seriously looking at an image of a black man and seing a GIANT GORILLA — there’s issues in that thinking I don’t even to think about.
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