http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs...rage-incredibly-racist-picture-112342550.html What do you make of this?
I think it is pretty much the same as the Anelka thing. remember, you cannot take pictures where a white person is above the black person in the shot Seriously?! The world has gone to ****. There is outrage over this meanwhile UK\US backed rebels murder whole families in Syria
Think it says more about 'equality' when the first thing we think is 'ohhhhhhh the manikin is a black person' rather than 'what an unusual chair'
i think its a rather silly photo shoot that some saddo thought was cool or innovative. utterly pointless.
I didn't realise it was a chair until I read the article, so my first though wasn't what an unusual chair! Anything like this should be balanced - like having two models of any ethnicity on the two different coloured chairs, otherwise people will and do read racism into it.
Similar to the above, I don't think anyone would have cared if it was a white mannequin... Which says more about positive discrimination and how we look to find discrimination or racism in anything we can - intended or not - such is the modern culture.
The original work of art this chair is ripping off was a white mannequin. Just a **** rip off of a **** idea.
All of this could have been avoided had they simply claimed it was an allusion to racism in the first place...
Surely Racism at its most simplistic is treating someone different based on the colour of their skin or ethnic origin. As such is kicking off about the fact the chair is a black women, rather than white, indian, asian, hispanic etc, in itself fueling racism? Fueling in the sense that it is highlighting an apparent difference that is not there? I understand there is a ever present knowledge of history that would/could lead to seeing this as a belittling take on the role of black people within society. However at the same time isn't kicking up a fuss in itself leading to the conclusion that black people are weak and need protecting by the 'moral white people' who are better than them? There seems to be this odd moral outrage at certain things while the vast majority of anyone who lives in the western world is in fact wearing clothes, eating food, buying products produced by essentially slave [and child] labour. It is standing on a moral high ground that is made of slaves, exploitation, warfare and abuse.
That one line covers it really. If you click on the link, it is clear for all to see that there is a white version of the chair too. So what's the problem? This wouldn't have got any attention had not been someone partly famous sat on said chair.
