Look at the state of the country now in regards to this? Do you really not believe the country isn’t further divided? Please don’t mistake this as an approval for what has happened with these people. It's deplorable.

Please understand what I’m trying to say. People here are 100% correct that in the media, magazines, movies, whatever there is a huge imbalance in people of different ethnicity being featured. There’s a lot of white people in them and not a lot of Black, Asian, everyone other than white people. I agree that it’s…

I'm sorry I missed this one but that's exactly what I mean. Please put the black cast on the cover of Rolling Stone or any other major magazine. Again, they're way more interesting than the two currently on there. I completely agree with you that we've had years and years of inequality, and that we're still there. I'm…

I take issue with the fact that we call out one but not the other.

Why is there not video of this little guy frolicking somewhere?

Where in the world did I say that? I believe I mentioned repeatedly that the Essence cover was far better. But how about we put people on magazine cover? People we're interested in? Who cares if they're white, black, whatever. I'd much rather see a cover of Red, Crazy Eyes, Pornstache, Sophia, Gloria, Taystee and…

Ignorant how?

You’re missing the point. We will never really, truly HONESTLY neutralize the effect of slavery, the denial of civil rights, and racism in this country until we can move past people pointing fingers at each side for everything and actually embrace and respect each other as people. Every time something like this…

Obvs

I completely agree with every single word of this post.

Keep digging in the fact that I believe everyone should be treated equally? I shall.

I have never once in this thread said that what Rolling Stone did or has done in the past was right. My issue was with the people who are ok with one and not the other. Either both should be ok ( which is how I feel about it) or neither. But you can’t slam one magazine and praise the other. That is not equality. Once…

I truly hope that one day all people will be represented equally everywhere. But to get there we as a people have to stop the back and forth and be Equal. Let’s say I make $100k a year. Would it be right or equal for my company to hire a black woman for the same role and say “We’re sorry for you being treated like…

I agree with you but doesn’t having a magazine specific to a certain race simply promote the racial problems this country was facing? Again what if there were a magazine called Rednecks, Guns ‘N Nascar. (Man I really hope there isn’t one)

No! My point is there shouldn’t be any racial outrage over either. But imagine if someone had posted something like Oh Look A Bunch of Black Women on Essence, What a surprise! Wow, can you imagine the hatred and flaming and rage that would have followed? However this thread is full of these posts, and the vast…

You misunderstood me. I don’t mean equality in the magazine covers. I mean the Equality of People saying OMG the cover of Essence was amazing and the cast killed it (which it was and which they did ) and the “Oh look , more white women showing boobs on the cover of Rolling Stone, way to miss the great diversity of the…

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying we live in a society of equality, hahaha, far far from it. I’m just saying if you’re going to express discontent over something like this. Then it should be applied equally. I personally dont have any objection to either cover other than I’m not a huge fan of Alex.

But shouldn’t equality actually equal equality?

So where was the outrage when the entire cast wasn’t present on the cover of Essence?

I laughed for almost 2 minutes. Thank you.