A loyal reader emailed me about these pics from a Harper’s Bazaar magazine fashion spread featuring Naomi Campbell. The reader asked if I thought the images were racist. She was particularly annoyed with the image of Naomi Campbell playing double dutch with monkeys while a white man (a hunter watching his prey?) looks on.

She wrote: “Can you see a white supermodel jumping rope with monkeys in the jungle?”

My initial response is, of course the images are racist. Vogue magazine pulled this same stunt with LeBron James and supermodel Gisele Bundchen on its cover in a pose reminiscent of King Kong and Ann Darrow.

Controversy sells and the ultimate purpose of these magazines is to grab the readers eye so they can move magazines off the racks. It’s a shame that celebs like Naomi Campbell and LeBron let themselves be used in this degrading manner. Or maybe they just don’t care.

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