Vogue magazine

Vogue is one of the best magazines in the women world, when reading it, people can find all kinds of propagandas, modern manners, nostalgia, fashion, interviews, trends, star search, beauty notes and much more. However, everybody is commenting about the last cover from april 2008, is even in the morning news. Is the first time a black male is on a cover. The matter is, because its a magazine for ladies, only two men were in the cover and they were george clooney and richard gere, two sexy symbols. What I think is that its almost a privilege to be the third man to appear in this kind of publication. According to the site sportswrap.com: "Gisele’s dress looks a lot like the one Naomi Watts wore in King Kong, no? They wouldn’t be trying to do a King Kong thing with King James, a black man, in the role of a giant monkey and a white woman as the damsel he’s trying to possess. Oh dear…some might take offense to that, don’t you think?"

This kind of comment is very cruel and unecessary, if you open the magazine you can find another picture and Lebron James is holding the brazilian model like a gentleman. The cover is just normal and shows one of the best players since Michael Jordan, and one of the most gorgeous women. The discrimination against Lebron is visible, in the site publication about the magazine there is a belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specifics to that race, and for that they can't be on a significant position that has nothing to do with sport or music. Besides, wouldn't someone like LeBron and Gisele get to approve a cover? If he had no objection to the photo, why should someone else? he's the one in the picture. That King Kong reference is far more insulting than any other implications about the photo. He makes those faces regularly on the court. LeBron is smart enough to know that it doesn't hurt to be on the cover of a popular magazine with a well known beautiful model.

This photo should be pleasing to all eyes. Some people see racism where there is none, Vogue cover is not racist, but the media and websites are. There is real racism that exists, this is not it. The only racism I see here is coming from the people who brought it up. Would all break loose if they put Giselle on the cover with a white player, doing the same pose? Why is this racial stereotypes? If the athlete was white, would it be racial stereotypes?

With all the acusations of racism, at first glance I would agree this could be taken the wrong way, why can’t he be wearing a suit and looking fashionable? Is a fashion magazine,not a sportive one,we don’t need him in a jersey and shorts. Also, he looks oddly agressive next to her and she looks weirdly delicate. But that's exacly who they are, and that cover should be expected.The gossip is probably around because the vogue magazine always presents women models in the cover, and this broke a rule in two ways, since he is a man and african american.

I didn't think about race at all. I saw an athlete and a fashion model, two very different physical types. LeBron James is a basketball player so they want to see this. He’s in shorts much like he would be normally dressed on court, those are the tools of his trade. The tools of her trade are a a tight dress , smile, a pair of heels and a well done hair.

Racism is something extremely difficult to control in today’s world, as we live in a fairly democratic world people have a right to air their opinions. It is done in a sensitive way. Laws have been passed making it illegal to be racist to ethnic citizens. That has helped the society but still it exists in society today.People are not born racist. Most children who grow up in an area that is mixed and their parent’s are racist grow up not being racist; on the other hand, people that have racist parents and live in predominantly once race neighbourhood grow up being racists.

The cover has caused a lot of gossip over whether the shot encourage racial stereotypes, now everybody that looks at the cover will notice the "kink konk" picture. That was a ridiculous comparation.Gisele looks like she is having a blast, not like she is being taken away by King Kong.There are much more important issues to deal in this world than trying to find trouble where none was meant. People are making a big deal about this, no person with common sense would look at this cover and think anything other than it's a big tough basketball player and a pretty model on the cover. For example: Economy, poverty, global warming, education and racism are issues that really matter, this cover controversy is so crazy that can't be considered racist, there is just nothing wrong with it. Vogue’s spokesman, Patrick O’Connell, says the magazine “sought to celebrate two superstars at the top of their game.” I see two people who have made it to the top of their careers at such a young age, have more money and popularity than they know what to do with and have made their mark in two diversely different ways." Sometimes I think people are so intent on finding the racial angle to everything that they see it where it's not present.

The mentality of superiority over other races that is passed on from generation to generation still remains a major cause of racism. Many people believe that it depends on if a person was brought into the world as a racist,but I find that after growing up this person can change its mind by itself. However, my impression is that we live in a world where some one always seems to find a racially motivated conspiracy in everything. This is another example of media creating a news story that doesn't exist, the fact that this is the first black male on the cover means Vogue magazine is attempting to move forward and forward is where we should be going. All kinds of other magazines should take it as an example and display more covers and reportages with/about black people.

Since when is a woman standing next to a man racist? This is a case of racism being in the mind of the beholder, those making the accusation that this is a racist cover need to look more carefully at their own prejudices. The face compared to an ape is a representation of the intensity that James shows on the court, I saw an exceptional athlete and basketball star standing next to a pretty woman, their skin tone was not my first thought. There is nothing racially insensitive about the cover of Vogue, Giselle looks more like a perfectly content piece on the arm of a professional athlete. I hope they would not see a gorilla.

The picture I selected for my blog can disapprove all that I wrote, but I choose it just because I think it was a simple coincidence between the pictures. She’s not being held below the waste and being dragged. She’s standing. I don't see any type of abrupt or symbolic racism in the photo, people are taking this too far. It looks like any action shot taken in a photo shoot, If he doesn't mind, why should the world care? Why is there so much negativity focused toward this cover? I choose to focus on the positive. It was a great move for Vogue to have a young, African American man on their cover for the first time. Lebron James is a huge icon for this generation. Some people will see racism and controversy in every comment or picture, and that will probably never be able to be controlled. I honestly don't believe Vogue would intentionally put anything they thought would even be perceived in that way on the cover.

Generally when people are unaccustomed to something they judge it. Racism is ignorance and to end we must be able to understand each other. Race will always be an issue, but I believe we need to change society by teaching the children about it, then we can seek an end for racism. Magazine covers are made to get a strong reaction. Anyone who see James as King Kong is a racist. It's that simple.