NOW Magazine’s Racist & Sexist Love & Sex Issue Exploits Black Sexuality For White Sexual Gratification!!!

Every year the white liberal Toronto publication Now Magazine publishes a Love & Sex issue and usually black models are used. The question has to be asked, why are black models used for the Love & Sex Issue? What messages are Now Magazine trying to promote about black sexuality? One argument is that, white models are used but white people are the norm. It is acceptable in society for white people to express their sexuality their bodies are not hyper sexualized. However, black  bodies are consistently hyper sexualized in North America.

Now Magazine is a white liberal Toronto publication and rarely are black people on the cover!  Black people tend to be on the cover for specific issues such as  black history month in February or Caribana in August.

Since it is February 2011,  I guess Now Magazine has decided to fill their black quota for the month. The images may not seem racist but they are. Why is the dark-skinned black male body treated as a sexual exotic? So black people are only allowed to be in Now Magazine to promote sex?

Black men we are stereotyped in North America to having sexual prowess and an insatiable sex drive. Notice in the first ad the black man is placed with a white woman. Why doesn’t Now Magazine use  South Asian, Native Canadian, or East Asian models? Why are black models consistently used for the Love & Sex issue?

These images simply reinforce white supremacist ideologies about black sexuality and black bodies.

So a black man has to be half nude in order to get the cover of Now Magazine? When was the last time a black doctor,  businessman, writer, teacher, poet got on the cover of Now Magazine? This racism and sexism is disgusting and makes me want to vomit!!