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Vogue Cover Racially Motivated? (Photo)
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| 03/25/2008
Posted on 03/25/2008 9:23:19 AM PDT by yankeedame
Vogue Cover Racially Motivated?
03/25/2008
NEW YORK, New York (AP) -- A spokesman for Vogue says the magazine's April cover sought to celebrate two superstars at the top of their game.
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.
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To: PurpleMan
"More importantly, where are the agents and the athletes themselves stepping in to stop these types of photos?"Why, you are SOOO, right. I vote that from now on, ALL male athletes pose ONLY in a manner similar to Tinkerbell from the Disney version of Peter Pan
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posted on
03/25/2008 9:53:58 AM PDT
by
cake_crumb
(Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
To: BigCinBigD
OOOOH, OOOOOOOH!! SPECIESIST!!! SPECIESIST!!!!
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posted on
03/25/2008 9:55:04 AM PDT
by
cake_crumb
(Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
To: SuperSonic
Does she play for Rutgers?
To: Trueblackman
It’s this sh*t again all the time anymore...
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posted on
03/25/2008 9:56:02 AM PDT
by
cake_crumb
(Boycott Genocide. Boycott the Olympics.)
To: cake_crumb
You miss the point (or ignore)
Don’t gripe about the photo if you pose for it.
To: yankeedame
Why do blacks who hate themselves and their own skin and see gorillas when they look in the mirror have to project their hatred onto people who don’t ever think this way?
To: yankeedame
I’ve never before seen such hard hitting investigative journalism in only two sentences.
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posted on
03/25/2008 9:57:42 AM PDT
by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the RINO population. Have them spayed or neutered. ©)
To: OKSooner
Some people just aren’t happy unless they find ways to be offended.
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posted on
03/25/2008 9:59:22 AM PDT
by
Tigercap
(McCain. For Supreme Court judge nominations and WOT progress if nothing else.)
To: yankeedame
To: montag813
Interspecies sex motivated!
To: Joe 6-pack
"LeBron James looks like King Kong pretty much all the time." Well I know when I have seen him play many of the people tasked to guard him look alot like Fay Wray.
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posted on
03/25/2008 10:01:34 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
To: Trueblackman; cake_crumb
Jeez, not this sh*t again!!!It’s this sh*t again all the time anymore...
OK, I'm curious. Exactly what is the sh*t that bothers you? Is it the topic? The photo? The responses?
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posted on
03/25/2008 10:02:41 AM PDT
by
Tired of Taxes
(Dad, I will always think of you.)
To: yankeedame
"...they say Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James looks like King Kong in his pose with model Gisele Bundchen."Looking at Lebron's pose, I would say that was their intent all along. Of course, I didn't see it as derogatory or racist toward Lebron but a clear depiction of power and beauty. It is what it is, a man-beast countered with a relative frail, beautiful woman.
Somebody ought to get Lebron's honest assessment on the picture before Jesse and Al get to him first.
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posted on
03/25/2008 10:03:46 AM PDT
by
Hatteras
To: Young Werther
Yup, the PC crowd doesn’t realize how Blazing Saddles really put things in perspective.
Everyone was a target. That’s equality.
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posted on
03/25/2008 10:05:55 AM PDT
by
rightinthemiddle
(The Mainstream Media Controls Our Party. Go, RINOS!)
To: sit-rep
Watch the HGTV...Home & Garden TV.
Every other couple is bi-racial, homosexual or lesbian. No agenda there.
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posted on
03/25/2008 10:07:36 AM PDT
by
rightinthemiddle
(The Mainstream Media Controls Our Party. Go, RINOS!)
To: yankeedame
Well she certainly doesn’t look terrified like Obama’s mamma’s mamma apparently looks when she is around Black people, that Typical Whitey response.
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posted on
03/25/2008 10:07:52 AM PDT
by
Typical_Whitey
(Obama if you really want to help Black America, free them from the Democrats Economic Plantation)
To: montag813
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posted on
03/25/2008 10:10:16 AM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(Benedict Arnold was against the Terrorist Surveillance Program)
To: rightinthemiddle
That one pisses me off as well. I am in construction and tuned into that channel a few times. I started to realize your statement is correct....
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posted on
03/25/2008 10:13:02 AM PDT
by
sit-rep
To: yankeedame
“Too Much Time On Their Hands” Alert!
Personally, I find the woman disgusting, mainly because she’s not sitting on my lap while I type this.
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posted on
03/25/2008 10:14:45 AM PDT
by
toddlintown
(On Obama's moral compass, "N" doesn't stand for "North.")
To: Hatteras
Looking at Lebron's pose, I would say that was their intent all along. Of course, I didn't see it as derogatory or racist toward Lebron but a clear depiction of power and beauty. It is what it is, a man-beast countered with a relative frail, beautiful woman.I Agree. They were going for a Beauty & the Beast photo.
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posted on
03/25/2008 10:15:35 AM PDT
by
SuperSonic
(Bush "lied", people dyed.......their fingers purple.)
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