Although I am biased to the Mavs team standings, I still believe the photo to be non-racial. I do not disagree that it could draw a question for some people. There is just far too much history between the players and previous issues in their personal lives that truly explain the meaning of the photo... for these reasons it would be difficult to base the photo on race alone.
I still understand the idea, that for people not following basketball/sports or pop culture, this picture could be somewhat offensive and questionable. On the other hand, if a person isn't interested in sports, I can't imagine that many of those people would look on the sports page for anything other than more sports info... therefore, it could be assumed that they would understand the photo's true context upon sight.
These kind of photos are somewhat hard to defend and truly analyze, however, and I wonder (like many in the class did) how many people said this was completely okay to print. On top of that, I wonder how they came to that conclusion... on their own? in a focus group? were men/women of all ethnicities involved and okay with the photo?
Can't say I wouldn't have liked to be present in that discussion.
There is definitely something to be learned from the media and it's reasonings.
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