Forty Years Later: Is Race Still in Vogue?

Martin Luther King's speech on racism was almost 40 years ago. The journalism world seemed to get better about the racism issue and being respectful. Although, recently Vogue magazine put a scowling black basketball star, LeBron James, was put on the cover along with a happy white supermodel, Gisele Bundchen. Does this show that Vogue was trying to make the black race seem less civilized than the white race? That is the question. The journalism world is very indecisive when it comes to the race issue and whether they truly want to talk about it. There are the journalists that talk rationally about the racism issues, but then there are the ones that use racism to make their stories more interesting like on the recent Vogue cover.

Journalism could be the world's pathway to a less racially motivated culture. If journalism spoke of every race in the same way, instead of seeming to take sides just because of a person's race, the people that read those stories could be affected by this change. If the people's media, who they look to to know what is going on in their world, showed respect, then the people may start to change their own views. I feel that this needs to be enforced. Every race needs to be treated equally by every journalist. It would obviously be hard to accomplish, but regulations need to be put into motion to start helping with this issue.

If you would like to read more, here is the link to the article:

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=58&aid=140909