Posted on 08/13/2013 4:27:16 AM PDT by YourAdHere
Ebony magazine has created controversy with the preview of its special September issue, which features bold cover photos related to the Trayvon Martin murder case.
As part of its attempt to keep alive the conversation of race and Stand Your Ground laws, which became national issues following the slaying of African-American teen Travyon Martin last year, the publication is rolling out a special issue with four separate covers bearing the headline “We Are Travyon” and featuring Black celebrities and their sons.
Appearing on the covers are the slain teenager’s own parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin with their son Jahvaris Fulton, as well as director Spike Lee and his son Jackson, actor Boris Kodjoe and his son Nicolas and NBA star Dwyane Wade with his sons Zaire and Zion, all wearing grey hoodies.
“As a mother of a young Black boy, the tragedy of Travyon Martin affected me deeply,” the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Amy Barnett, said in a press release, according to The Huffington Post. “We simply cannot allow the conversations on this issue to come to a standstill. As the leading source for an authoritative perspective on the African-American community, at Ebony we are committed to serving as a hub for Black America to explore solutions, and to giving readers the information and tools they need to help ensure a bright future for all of our children.”
In addition to an exclusive interview with Trayvon’s parents, the issue includes in-depth coverage on George Zimmerman’s trial and the aftermath, a discussion with Lee, Kodjoe and Wade about how they address the topic of racism with their sons, a prayer of healing by Bishop T.D. Jakes, an article on racial profiling by Columbia University professor Marc Lamont Hill, a poem for Travyon by singer Jill Scott, discussions on how to save Black youth from gun violence, and more.
The visually powerful covers and the issue’s content have been widely praised by many. Predictably, however, others have decried the covers as being racist and even evil.
“These covers are frankly racist,” Aaron Worthing wrote on Twitter. @Melvin_Udall_ deemed Ebony’s “stand” as “racist, race baiting, fraud. Pure evil.”
There was even a rumor that the Tea Party would boycott the magazine. Ebony responded to that rumor with several snarky replies.
“We have so many Tea Party readers and followers. To lose all zero of them due to our September cover would be devastating,” the magazine wrote on its Twitter account Aug. 7. “The racist trolls on our timeline objecting to our September covers need to have a seat at a Klan meeting and get out of our mentions.”
To its supporters the magazine said: “And thanks to all those who have expressed their appreciation for our September covers. We are honored to do this work. #JusticeForTrayvon.”
Keep it up people, you are going to awake a sleeping giant soon and then you will not know what hit ya. Sick race baiting morons.
Ebony, Ivory Living In Perfect Harmony
Ebony, Ivory, Ooh
We All Know That People Are The Same Where Ever We Go
There Is Good And Bad In Ev’ryone,
We Learn To Live, We Learn To Give
Each Other What We Need To Survive Together Alive.
The giant is not sleeping. The giant is on drugs and could care less
Somehow, I don't think a racist blacks-only magazine like Ebony is popular amongst the Tea Party crowd. But the racists at Ebony would gladly spread a b******t rumor if it suits their anti-white agenda.
Trayvon got justice. Live like a thug, die like a thug.
Hey celebrity star with a Travon-like son: Come after me and bash my head into the ground and I’ll kill you in self-defense no matter what your color and I think you’d do the same thing. The only thing you and your kind have revealed yourselves to be is STUPID.
We are anti-thug conservatives that will shoot you in the buttocks if you try to beat, intimidate, burglarize or rob us. Your race card has been revoked. You have used it so much our ears are bleeding and we are mo longer listening because you have abused it. The debt has been long overpaid and you’re no longer entitled to freebies paid for by rhe sweat of our backs as we slaved for you. If you’re offended get over it and act like civilized people and you eill be respected. We are not Trayvon Martin and you shouldn’t be either. Learn this; you live by the sword you die by it. Now teach your children that and you wont have to worry about them getting shot in the streets.
Mamma’s don’t let your babies grow up to be thugs.
Remind me again...who are the racists now?
We are anti-thug conservatives that will shoot you in the buttocks if you try to beat, intimidate, burglarize or rob us. Your race card has been revoked. You have used it so much our ears are bleeding and we are no longer listening because you have abused it. The debt has been long overpaid and you’re no longer entitled to freebies paid for by rhe sweat of our backs as we slaved for you. If you’re offended get over it and act like civilized people and you will be respected. We are not Trayvon Martin and you shouldn’t be either. Learn this; you live by the sword you die by it. Now teach your children that and you wont have to worry about them getting shot in the streets.
Dang tributes to the Not So Fresh Prince Of Sanford.
We are Zimmerman, and we shoot to kill thugs who attempt to kill us.
There was no mama
The village failed
That is the lesson that the African American community needs to take away from Trayvon’s death.
They want so badly to be a part of something real, to awake out of the fog of complacency, that this is the best they can come up with. It’s sad really.
How about an “all white” magazine with a cover that said, “We are George Zimmerman”? Ya think that would stir things up a bit?
Wish there was a like button on FR.
With them it’s all about color of skin, not content of character. May as well teat down the MLK/Mao monument on the mall.
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