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Are You Offended?
Published by Stacy Gilliam on Friday, March 21, 2008 at 11:11 am.
See a comparison between LeBron James and King Kong on the April issue of Vogue? One sports blogger does and takes issue with James’ decision to take such a shot.
Blogger writes: Some people who see the Vogue cover and see the inescapable similarities between King Kong and King James will blame Vogue and/or photographer Annie Leibovitz for the ape-like visage of James, mouth agape, all 6′9″, 260 pounds of his blackness charging out of the cover with Bundchen swept up in his arm and her in her best German-Euro version of Ann Darrow. Let’s break from the descriptions and call this like it is: King Kong. The Great Ape. King James. The Great Ni*ger…LeBron’s image clearly means a lot to him, maybe even as much as pursuing a championship. And that’s why I can’t understand why he would allow Vogue to feature him with supermodel Gisele Bundchen in such a distasteful manner. LeBron has Gisele in one hand and a basketball in the other. LeBron is dressed in basketball gear, with his muscles flexing, tattoos showing and bared teeth. Gisele, on the other hand, is wearing a gorgeous slim-fitting dress, and smiling.
Is the blogger too sensitive, or does he make a point?
actually now that i’m looking at the 2 comparoson, yes i am.when i first seen the picture i was wondering why he had his mouth all open in the first place.
I don’t see anything wrong with this pic.
We always try to read more into something as black people, but when I first seen it, all I thought was they were compairing him to be stong like King Kong, that type of thing…not looking at the pic like o, they are trying to say he is a black ape or something…that is CRAZY!
No, its just a joke
joke or whatever! its still offensive! gOSH JOKES ARE MEANT TO CONVEY A MESSAGE! AND THIS MESSAGE IS THAT BLACK MEN ARE APES
Not an insult at all, considering that the King Kong character is a sympathetic figure pitted against a nation lusty with capitalism. I think it’s a daring cover bashing a culture that reduces a human down to an entertainment product, just like Kong in a zoo.