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.”
Buttocks hell. Try thoracic triangle.
I suggest we start a page with all the black on white victims and their families—particularly those who have been maimed or murdered by those boyz in hoodies. Imagine what the outcry from libs would be seeing them all in one spot. Space aliens would be wondering what the noise on earth was.
What conversation would that be?
Tersely stated and well put.
It galls me how the media has turned this thug wannabe into a saint. I have Italian ancestors. One time in the presence of my grandmother I made the mistake of equating someone in the family to the Mafia. I thought the rage of god had hit me as she pointed out the Mafia was not a proper example to follow nor were any of our family so involved. The Trayvon crowd likes to have him as their idol in other words they relish being involved in thuggery, drugs, and non social behavior. Furthermore they shield that behavior from view by insinuating to uncover it is racial profiling. Of course the lefty media gives it an incubator to keep the message alive. The not so lefty media is guilty by their inaction.
I am George Zimmerman.
Smart people, those Tea Party people! Why should they read or support a magazine filled with tribalism, racism, hatred, and inferior writing?
There is a lesson in Trayvona Brawley Martin.
Pray for America to Wake Up
> Buttocks hell. Try thoracic triangle.
Shhh 0’s NSA is listening...: ^ )
Well, they do want to keep the conversation on race alive, and it's not looking too good for them.
> I suggest we start a page with all the black on white victims and their families—particularly those who have been maimed or murdered by those boyz in hoodies. Imagine what the outcry from libs would be seeing them all in one spot. Space aliens would be wondering what the noise on earth was.
You’d have to have a website with an unlimited amounts of space available pages because you’d run out of room quick. I’d guess it would be a 75 to 100 to 1 ratio on black on white crime as compared to the other way around
The Dancing Travons!
(Travon = murderous ghettoRAT)
It seems like as soon as his gang membership was revealed, the MSM decided he wasn't a candidate for sainthood, and the whole matter just disappeared.
whitegirlbleedalot.com has a lot. Be warned, he plugs his book a lot.
Mama wasted no time showing up when she knew she could get rich quick.
What a Bizzaro world we live in.
Yup.
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