OT: Lebron's racist cover?
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:29 pm
He's on the cover of Vogue, but they say it's racist cuz he looks like a gorilla wanting to "play" with the girl, I say he just looks like an idiot. From Yahoo...
the image is stirring up controversy, with some commentators decrying the photo as perpetuating racial stereotypes. James strikes what some see as a gorilla-like pose, baring his teeth, with one hand dribbling a ball and the other around Bundchen
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:31 pm
Racist or not, that's one ugly cover.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:39 pm
Oh lets cry about something, it's all people ever do.
(Well, like a small percentage do - then it becomes news.)
(Well, like a small percentage do - then it becomes news.)
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:40 pm
meh...just making something out of nothing...the NAACP will get their filthy hands in it soon and we'll have an uproar over it...just a picture to me...if it was intended or not (which im pretty sure it wasnt), who cares...people are soft...
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:07 pm
Is this another example of the man trying to keep the brother down? A decree sent from the smoke filled room where all white men gather to discuss new and improved ways to keep minorities, women and homosexuals existing on a level of economic and social inferiority? Give me a
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:08 pm
Maybe the author is saying he's portraying King Kong (gorilla and blonde white girl in grasp) waiting for someone to knock him down from the heights he's risen (empire state building) to?
Maybe it's just art imitating art?
Maybe it's just a cheap knock off, just like a velvet painting of the last supper?
Maybe it's just art imitating art?
Maybe it's just a cheap knock off, just like a velvet painting of the last supper?
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:31 pm
Two things you can be sure of:
They took dozens of pictures.
LeBron approved of that one.
So if he looks like a gorilla, (which I don't see) he likes the look.
They took dozens of pictures.
LeBron approved of that one.
So if he looks like a gorilla, (which I don't see) he likes the look.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:33 pm
Cant believe people are so bored to come up with such stupid remarks. We have to complain about something all the time. Ugly or not it is a picture and has received attention, so it did its job.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:37 pm
mhectorgato wrote:Maybe the author is saying he's portraying King Kong (gorilla and blonde white girl in grasp) waiting for someone to knock him down from the heights he's risen (empire state building) to?
Maybe it's just art imitating art?
Maybe it's just a cheap knock off, just like a velvet painting of the last supper?
i think the picture is supposed to portray him as a king kong type, i believe that was the point of the photo. but not to refer or compare him to a "monkey" or to insinuate that he or other blacks are gorillas.
and LeBron didnt see a problem with it...
besides, i dont see a porch in that picture...oh zing!
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:38 pm
magicmamma wrote:Two things you can be sure of:
They took dozens of pictures.
LeBron approved of that one.
So if he looks like a gorilla, (which I don't see) he likes the look.
Maybe it's his hard-core muscle bound look balanced by her softness. I don't know, I'm not that artsy-fartsy
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:38 pm
theTHIEF wrote:-= original quote snipped =-
i think the picture is supposed to portray him as a kink kong type, i believe that was the point of the photo. but not to refer or compare him to a "monkey" or to insinuate that he or other blacks are gorillas.
and LeBron didnt see a problem with it...
besides, i dont see a porch in that picture...oh zing!
Oh no you didn't
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:41 pm
i'll be here all week folks
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:42 pm
theTHIEF wrote::D
i'll be here all week folks
Don't forget to tip your waitstaff.
Also don't forget that blur is your friend.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:43 pm
blur is overrated, true photoshop heads work the picture and it's elements...
holla!
holla!
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:02 pm
theTHIEF wrote:blur is overrated, true photoshop heads work the picture and it's elements...
holla!
Clone tool is where it's at!!!
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:30 pm
looks like some people should watch a little more NBA. Players make that face after a dunk all the time. Maybe the photographer was trying a King Kong effect but then again maybe not.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:34 pm
theTHIEF wrote:blur is overrated, true photoshop heads work the picture and it's elements...
holla!
classic
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:37 pm
Since the op didn't post a link 
pwned yet again
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080324/ap_ ... TxHe9xFb8C
Besides ... a little controversy helps to sell advertisin.. I mean magazines.
pwned yet again
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080324/ap_ ... TxHe9xFb8C
It's an image some have likened to "King Kong" and Fay Wray.
James told The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer he was pleased with the cover, saying he was "just showing a little emotion."
"Everything my name is on is going to be criticized in a good way or bad way," James told the paper. "Who cares what anyone says?"
But magazine analyst Samir Husni believes the photo was deliberately provocative, adding that it "screams King Kong." Considering Vogue's influential history, he said, covers are not something that the magazine does in a rush.
"So when you have a cover that reminds people of King Kong and brings those stereotypes to the front, black man wanting white woman, it's not innocent," he said
Vogue spokesman Patrick O'Connell said the magazine "sought to celebrate two superstars at the top of their game" for the magazine's annual issue devoted to size and shape.
"We think Lebron James and Gisele Bundchen look beautiful together and we are honored to have them on the cover," he said.
Besides ... a little controversy helps to sell advertisin.. I mean magazines.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:39 pm
peace sells, but who's buying?
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:42 pm
theTHIEF wrote:peace sells, but who's buying?
Mostly controversy seems to make it to the entertai... I mean news.