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28-03-08, 02:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Vivienne
http://http://sportsillustrated.cnn....2002/0311.html
This was a cover of Sports Illustrated in March 2002, this time featuring Charles Barkley. At the time Barkley stated he was making a statement about the evils of racism by doing the cover. What do you think. Did the cover make the same headlines five years ago as LeBron's current feature?
Both covers represent different kinds of black men. The 2002 Barkley cover portrayed a man freed from his chains, while the 2008 LeBron cover shows a man reduced to the image of a beast. The question is, are black people now so accustomed to the discrimination still in America that they have become desensitised to it? Could Vogue have dared get away with this cover in 1998 as opposed to 2008? What changed so dramatically in the last six years.
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Wow...what an excellent point (or question) you have presented. I sometimes just shake my head at how witless many of my Diasporic brothers and sisters are just looking the White Supremacist system in the face and don't recognize it anymore. Hell, most of the time they are embracing it, and will turn around to call you a "hater" for pointing out their sheer ignorance.
We get confounded trying to get back to Africa. On my first trip to Africa, they asked, "Where's your passport?" I said "I have no passport...I was taken away 500 years ago; and now I'm back."
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