Was it meant to look like this?

Here we go again with this "23" thing, we all know how that number is linked to this. Now to this so called vogue cover, when I first saw it I didn't think it was racially charged. But when you look at it compared to the King Kong cover you began to wonder. I'm pretty sure Lebron had no idea it looked eerily similar, but I wonder if the people at Vogue had any idea? That's the real question here. We all know how minorities are depicted in the media, it has changed with the times but there is still work to be done. Was Vogue just continuing that trend? I say, maybe, not really sure. It does look really similar I hope they weren't using the Kong covers as an inspiration, because then the cover would be somewhat offensive. People have been talking about the cover because its rare Vogue has a man ( let alone a black man) on its cover. I could understand that, not many men are sitting on the train reading Vogue anyway. I do believe there are certain things minorities who are in the public eye must avoid. (Dave Chappelle realized this but it was what made him famous, he definitely wished he would of realized it before he signed the dotted line.) Avoiding things that have racial undertones, anything that can remind America of the times we want to keep in our past. Any animal but an ape, it's just too close to a bad history for African Americans. There was too much fighting to shed that image. Did Lebron rehash that image from the past? No, not knowingly, he just posed. Did Vogue rehash that image? A good Possibility, but that's just me what do you think, does it look similar? My Answer is yes.. Do You Agree??