[Piefloater]

From down here (Australia) this looks like a blatantly racist reaction from the readers & the industry. But racial sensitivities in the US seem to differ quite markedly from those here so I would be interested in any comments about this on Free Republic.

[cranked]

She must be a result of affirmative action policies .... /s =.=

[Kieri]

Somebody cue the “That’s Racist” kid video, please.

[fr_freak]

From down here (Australia) this looks like a blatantly racist reaction from the readers & the industry.

It is blatantly racist, but here in the US, political correctness dictates that black people get to be as racist as they want up to and including beating, raping and killing white people.

[ebersole]

Oh, hasn’t anyone told Australians that only whites are racist?:)

[Dallas59]

[PA Engineer]

You think black racial hatred is bad at Essence. You should check out the black dating boards. When a black women mentions the possibility of dating a white male all hell breaks loose. Those threads make a KKK convention look like a love fest.

The elephant in the living room of American political correctness is the depth of black racism towards whites or for that matter any other race.

[TexasNative2000]

But racial sensitivities in the US seem to differ quite markedly

Bingo. In the states, racism is a one-way street. What is good for the goose is not allowed for the gander.

[DaxtonBrown]

How can you have a Black magazine which isn’t by definition racist? Instad of Essence, imagine Vogue or Elle stating Naomi Cambell couldn’t appear on the cover. The world is insane.

[Ballygrl]

It’s totally a racist reaction but I LOL’d at the article, I find the reaction amusing and hypocritical at the same time. Can you imagine the reaction of a magazine exclusively for whites?

[griswold3]

The politically correct response is that ‘African Americans cannot be racists’
But the ‘Country Class’ says this is pure racism through and through.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Michaela Angela Davis? Guess who she was probably named after, Angela Davis, the Communist Party USA leader and once tried/acquitted as an accessory before the fact to murder. Her shotgun was used by a prisoner to kill a judge (blew his head off). It just walked off by itself to end up in the hands of the brother of her lover, George Jackson, a real piece of criminal/marxist work.

[LostInBayport]

The first black person to obtain a job previously held only by whites — say, President — is historic, significant and all that.

The first white person to obtain a job previously held only by blacks — not so much.

Sadly, there are so many people of all colors in this country that ban their minds from entertaining even a fleeting recognition of the hypocrisy of it all.

[Roccus]

[denydenydeny]

From down here (Australia) this looks like a blatantly racist reaction from the readers & the industry

That impression would be correct.

This is the magazine that publishes, for example, one columnist who expressed fury that a white woman (Angelina Jolie) was hired to portray a white woman (Cleopatra).

[Nea Wood]

"It is with a heavy, heavy, heart I have learned that Essence magazine has engaged a white fashion director," Ms Davis wrote.

Racist b####. Imagine if a white ever said they had a "heavy heart" about a black being hired...for anything, under any circumstances.

[Deagle]

Comic actually, would love to see this happen here...heh.

[Nepeta]

This "racism for me but not from thee" attitude is beginning to seriously grate on my patience.

Essence is a business. I cannot imagine the woman would have been hired if anyone imagined that she would have anything but a positive effect on the conduct of their business. Nothing else should have mattered.

There are people in this country who will not be content until everything is divided up along racial lines, and it's not white people pushing for this.

[4rcane]

isn’t this a good step in racial harmony. There shouldn’t be any black only groups. Its a sign that ppl want to remain racist

[BunnySlippers]

"It is with a heavy, heavy, heart I have learned that Essence magazine has engaged a white fashion director," Ms Davis wrote.

Wow! Change the word white to black and you can realize that she should be fired.

[B-Chan]