Vogue Cover Racially Motivated? (Photo)

WHIO .com ^ | 03/25/2008

[sit-rep]

(tip hat...)

Sorry!

[PurpleMan]

Geeze. Does he think “Caine Mutiny” is about the Navy, too?

Sigh.

[Charlespg]

Damm these people are just stupid

[MrB]

I have to ask what it’s like (for them) to wake up looking for something to be offended by.

Life must be hell.

[truthguy]

Never happens!

[dr.zaeus]

I don’t think that it was the intent to ‘defame’ LeBron James (or blacks in general). The photograph was taken by Annie Leibovitz, who last time I checked, was an unabashed liberal. Obviously she meant to stir the pot with an interracial photo, but it’s a stretch to assume that she was trying to slur Mr. James with such a portrayal on a major magazine.

[dr.zaeus]

Don’t forget, these are the same critics that (debate it if you want) cried foul when Intel made that ad with the black runners ‘bowing’ before their smirking white master.

[montag813]

By the way, the original King Kong is a movie about white’s fear of blacks (and especially the fear of the despoilation of white women) artfully disguised as a monster movie about a giant ape.

Maybe that's why it was Hitler's favorite film.

[ZeitgeistSurfer]

If that’s true (I always thought that Leni Riefenstahl’s alpine movies were his favorites.) it could very well be the reason.

[GOPJ]

What made the editors (all probably Democrats) decide to run it at this time? Hmmm... Even with pagination, magazines have to be made up ahead of time. If I'm right, you'll see lots of black men and white women on magazine covers in the next few weeks.

The Clintons will play every racist card they've got. And it seems they've got a lot.

Watching them working at keeping race the issue is like gawking at a car wreck -sick, but captivating.

[GOPJ]

The photograph was taken by Annie Leibovitz, who last time I checked, was an unabashed liberal. Obviously she meant to stir the pot with an interracial photo...

And who would "stirring the pot" help in the current election?

That would be Hillary!

Expect to see more of her middle aged and older women friends "stirring the pot" in ways that play on racists fears to the benefit of Hillary. How dare they? How dare they.

[GOPJ]

See post #18

[TexanToTheCore]

That was the point of the photo. King Kong and Fay wray. Good photo.

[Fundamentally Fair]

But critics say it perpetuates racial stereotypes because they say Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James looks like King Kong in his pose with model Gisele Bundchen.

So, they are saying that James looks like a big gorilla. Anybody see the irony in this?

[Cyber Liberty]

I never did buy the “subliminal” stuff....

[GOPJ]

Clintons have kept race front and center - it wouldn't surprise me if they were behind ads like this - if I'm right - we'll see lots more in the next few months. Especially in PA...