Friday, November 9, 2012

Uncanny, Or, the Maintenance of Racial Stereotypes in Media


Apparently the photographer for the shoot wanted the magazine cover of LeBron and Gisele to allude to the adjacent image. Do things really ever change? How would people feel if anti-Semitic magazine covers clearly referring to Nazi and other offensive propangada images were used? Of course, that is likely to not happen since Jews are white and anything that goes too far with issues such as the Holocaust require more respect and "political correctness" than blacks deserve. Thus, the perpetuation of images showing black males as ape-like brutes going for your white daughters, even if they're white Brazilians, illustrates the ongoing demeaning, publicly acceptable societal views of blacks. Remember the New Yorker's cartoon showing a murdered ape as Obama? This is essentially the same.

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