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DON’T PUT AWAY THAT LEBRON-GISSELE RACE CARD JUST YET!
April 1st, 2008

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A website called Slate.com has dug up the bones of the LeBron-Giselle Vogue cover again and they have a point here........

“No matter how many “courageous” speeches Barack Obama gives, America will never be a “Let’s talk about race” kind of place. It’ll always be a “Let’s talk about how we can’t talk about race” kind of place. I’m all for doing my part. I’d like to start a talk show called This Week in Racism. Eventually, in the broadcast, we’d get around to the cover of Vogue’s current “shape” issue”......More....... http://www.slate.com/id/2187797/

Far be it from us to pull out the race card when it’s unwarranted...... (cue Ice Cube)




......But you can’t deny the Vogue photo probably came from a model of the King Kong photo...........Offensive? Wrong? Stereotypical?...Or an overreaction?



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Valid race card or overhyped by the hungry media? You decide P1’s