OK, I cheated and read the thread after looking at the cover, but before posting my thoughts.
First thought was, “I suppose it’s about the presidential race, but they’ve made a boo-boo and it looks like a commentary on Obama being black.” But now I see that the choice and double meaning were deliberate. :smack:
Ethnicity
I get confused every time David Gregory’s show, “Race for the White House,” comes on MSNBC. What? How’d HE know that race was going to be the crucial issue this time? And why the WHITE House? Couldn’t he have called his show “Campaign for the Presidency” or something?
I saw the cover when it was delivered to my office yesterday. I thought “Presidential race” not “African-American ethniticity.”
My first thought was “Clever use of the pun.”
My second thought was “Why does race have to be an issue?”
Third thought was “Why is race an issue when the candidate is African-American, but not when he is white?”
I predict that the article will be about how someone who is neither fully white nor fully black is seen as racially ambigious and in the position to choose what race they portary themselves as. Obama, however, seems to identify as black, which can be seen by his marrying a “real” black woman.
I thought “Barack Obama has a little conjoined twin head growing out of his shoulder.”
Photographic negative?
Maybe Oreo, since you’re obviously fishing. I’ll go read your spoiler now.
I figured it was a story about Barack Obama and race in the US. Race as in ethnicity.
Second thought: Michelle’s on the black side, Obama’s in the middle…why isn’t there a face on the white side? Like McCain?
I think I thought of race as in ethnicity first, then “oh, it’s a pun.”
For some reason the picture loaded slowly and the word ‘Race’ was only visible at first for a second or too. I think color and the font, not to mention the absence of any modifiers (like ‘the race for the white house’ or ‘relay race’ or just ‘the race’) made me think of ‘race’ as ethnicity.
When the rest of the cover appeared and I saw Obama’s face, I thought of the presidential race.
Race in the ethnic sense, Obama in the middle of that divide. And Rorshach tests, but the latter is only because I am thinking about the Watchmen, and your request for impressions.
I was stunned to discover that Obama was a white man in blackface this whole time.
My brain saw the word “Peace” instead of “Race”. I had to look twice. I think it’s because of the font.
It’s obviously a subtle comment on Barack’s nuanced thinking on the the issues facing the electorate, the country ane the world today, rather than the usual black and white stances, however far apart those stances may be.
Aren’t you guys even paying attention?
Protoss versus Terran. The centerpiece is a strange zealot with large ears and extra facial features tacked on, while a medic panics in the dark background, thinking, “If the idiot who made this map had bothered to put a vespene geyser in the natural, I wouldn’t be in this predicament.”
New York Marathon, of course.
No, not really. Obviously it’s about Obama’s internal dichotomy.
Why is race an issue when you call a black person a monkey and not when you call a white person a monkey?