Vogue Racism is in the Near Clear
According to one web magazine with a business model built on playing Devil's Advocate
Slate's Wesley Morris: "Between the outrage over Obama's Jeremiah Wright problems and Bill Clinton's unbelievable mutation from American's first black president into Karl Rove, I don't have the bandwidth to fight Anna Wintour. Seeing that cover as purely racist doesn't give the people looking at it enough credit. It dates Vogue for relying on the allusion but it also dates us for going crazy over it. Racial hysteria is the old black. Maybe it's so old it's avant-garde—very Vogue." [Slate, earlier]
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Oh, so we're overreacting? Or we're drama queens?
I think it's just a coincidence. I can't imagine Annie Lebowitz (sp) being a part of something like that.
Big coincidence! It's possible, regardless, as a photographer with years of experience, she must at some point of been aware of the ramifications of this picture. He is depicted as a savage, plain and simple. There are many more creative ways she could have played on the contrast between his size and physical power and her gentle frame rather than falling back on very crude stereotypes to create that contrast. It's actually creatively lazy and not clever.
I think it's great! Gisele looks good.. LeBron looks LeBron… it's hilarious!