I heard about this on the radio yesterday. LeBron James is one of three men to appear on the cover of Vogue. But a lot of peeps are saying it's a racist depiction. Whaddya think?
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Sports/Newsish: LeBron on the cover of Vogue
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
3 comments:
I can agree with this. What is interesting (in response to a comment left on that article) is that he is not acknowledging that he is being depicted in such a way. There is an artist, Michael Ray Charles, who is an African American and pretty much talks about African Americans being blind to what the American society is trivializing them to (i.e. sports, entertainment etc). You should look at his stuff: here's a link to one of his best pieces. Enjoy!
http://www-tc.pbs.org/art21/artists/charles/img/MRC_2.jpg?Log=0
here is the link to a mini article that talks about the piece
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/charles/card1.html
haha sorry one more- here's some more pics portraying the notion in society that African Americans are a commodity:
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pbs.org/art21/slideshow/artists/c/charles-paint-006-d.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.pbs.org/art21/slideshow/%3Fartist%3D110&h=59&w=100&sz=7&hl=en&start=1&sig2=ZD88qX1-17p8SfFmZv_iYA&um=1&tbnid=QcDkOhbkh3I1bM:&tbnh=48&tbnw=82&ei=-6HmR_DLFZeCecuLoZQP&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmichael%2Bray%2Bcharles%2Bforever%2Bfree%2Btommy%2Bhilnigguh%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DG
Post a Comment