ABC News Blogger: James As “Gorilla” On Cover?
Sheila Marikar blogs in a post for ABCNEWS.com that the VOGUE magazine cover featuring Lebron James and Gisele Bundchen is racist.
Marikar:
They’re two of the most beautiful people on earth. But some say the Vogue photograph, shot by Annie Leibovitz, isn’t attractive at all because of the racial stereotype it purportedly evokes — black beast clutching a white damsel in distress, reflected in French sculptor Emmanuel Fremiet’s 1887 statue “Gorilla Carrying Off a Woman,” and later, in the many incarnations of “King Kong.” Read more…






