Oh. My. God

[Number23]

24. 'the black men will rape the white women' meme

Yeah, we thought that meme had died out a couple of hundred years ago, right?

Wrong! ?w=595

And this wasn't a Vogue cover from 1984 when there were still a handful of white people that could convincingly state they didn't know any better. This was from 2008. What, they couldn't find a suit to put the brother in? She's draped over his arm in a $600 dress and he looks like he just wandered off the basketball court? This is a "fashion editorial" that someone got paid to set up???? And I'm sure it's just a coincidence that it looks just like this image:



As for the sexism, we all know that the swimsuit edition is sexist. A throwback to a long gone era -- or so I'd like to think. But I guess being sexist wasn't enough. They decided they needed to throw in some extra strength industrial racial fuckwittery in to boot.

The "everyone wants our wimmens" angle is insultingly stupid (and not even close to being true) enough, but as I said upthread, it would be bad enough to see things like this if we knew that there would still be PLENTY of opportunities for black/Asian/Middle Eastern/Hispanic etc. women to be seen as gorgeous, strong women. But we know that this is most certainly NOT the case which makes the "white girl travels the world" editorials from uncreative, unimaginative dimwits at media enterprises such as Sports Illustrated that much more frustrating/maddening/disappointing.