Two weeks ago Russian Magazine Editor-In-Chief Dasha Zhukova came under fire for posting a racially inappropriate photo on Martin Luther King Day.
The picture was of the editrix sitting on a ‘Black Woman’ Chair and was published by online magazine Buro 247. Dasha has since come to apologize and the image has been cropped but some people are hearing none of it
Speaking to Huffington PostAlexander had this to say
“I was forced to leave Russia because of the discrimination I experienced as a gay.I’m disappointed that the tradition of xenophobia is so strong in my home country that such an image of Ms. Zhukova can appear as if it is normal and unremarkable. Russian people do not seem to realize when people offend the principle of color, nationality, sexual orientation and so on.”
Kargaltsev enlightened us on the idea through Out There Magazine, where he said
“It deeply saddens me to see that racism is now being glamorized and thus made not only acceptable but trendy by the likes of Ms. Zhukova. My own composition reverses the visual injustice and offense perpetrated by that editorial and in a way restores the equality of genders, races, and sexual orientations. Sadly, I understand very well that my work will be seen by most Russians as provocative and inappropriate, while that repulsive image (published on Martin Luther King’s Day of all days in a year) will hardly make anyone over there shake their head.”
LIZ NJUGUNA/Huffington Post.