Posted on 02/12/2019 7:26:36 AM PST by SMGFan
Amid backlash on social media, the magazine’s editor-in-chief defended the piece in a follow-up article.
Esquire has found itself embroiled in controversy on social media after a piece about a young white, middle-class teenager was chosen as the focal point for a piece on growing up in America in the March issue of the magazine, which was released during February ― Black History Month. The piece follows 17-year-old high school senior Ryan Morgan from West Bend, Wisconsin. Morgan is featured in a powerful cover image on the March 2019 issue of Esquire. Overlaid over the image of Morgan, who is donning both a button-down and a hoodie and holding a sneaker, is the text: “An American Boy.”
“What it’s like to grow up white, middle class, and male in the era of social media, school shootings, toxic masculinity, #MeToo, and a divided country,” it reads.
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Why would this “stir controversy”? Is there a law stating that ONLY articles written about blacks be published during February? I do not recall that piece of legislation making it through Congress.
cover dated March.
Apparently there’s an unwritten rule on the subject, considering the reaction.
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Yes, this is where we are headed.
Gee....do you suppose that Esquire actually KNOWS who the core demographic is that actually buys its magazine? Hint: it’s not Black, Latino, or Female.
Well, Adidas did have to pull an all-white shoe for the same reason. We've hit 1984 at light speed.
This phenomenon of people ACTIVELY LOOKING for things to get upset about, and the media dutifully reporting what upsets them, is unbelievably absurd.
As to “Black History Month,” I think we can all see what’s happening here. Since Obama flew the coop, the media has gone completely black-crazy, as if they’re trying to make sure “The Black Experience” isn’t forgotten now that we don’t have a black president.
This almost-ceaseless pandering is insulting — not only to blacks, but to everyone who doesn’t judge people by the color of their skin.
It smells like a desperate search for advertiser eyeballs with a thin spread of marxist agitation and a dadaism cherry on top.
Wait! What month is white history month again?
Indeed. More than just the media, I have seen. Commercials now are rife with multi-racial couples as if that is now the standard.
People are outraged at a story about a young white man. We can no longer tell the diff between a big deal and a little deal.
Maybe they had a black lad planned for the cover but he was shot by another?
Black victimhood - fighting for ever smaller grievances - is all the left has...
“Wait! What month is white history month again?”
The utter leven munts...u silly!
Black people are about 15 percent of the population, but the media, especially the advertising media, is portraying blacks as about three-quarters of the population. It’s just incredible, unprecedented pandering.
Got to say that game described in the article disturbs me. Imagine being a kid and forced to publicly express opinions on controversial issues or lie about his or her opinions in the day of Black Lives Matter and other grievance mongers.
Whenever you see: “stirs controversy on social media”, and “backlash”, look for foreign agents of influence out to agitate SJW ‘snowflakes’. It don’t take much to start an avalanche, and it can be done from half a world away!
“People are outraged at a story about a young white man.”
Dollars to donuts the “outraged” are young, basement dwelling sjw mouth-breathers who hide behind Internet anonymity for their screeds.
The thing about the media/Hollywood doing such is that I support the promotion of blacks, so long as it is based upon merit and not simply the color of their skin. One of my favorite actors is Denzel Washington. He will go down in history as one of the greatest ever, in company with Cary Grant, Robert Mitchum, Sidney Poitier, Gene Hackman, and Clark Gable.
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