:issue: blackface?

Art or Offensive? Thoughts?

http://cocoperez.com/2009-10-12-vogue-paris-does-racially-insensitive-photo-shoot

http://thefashionisto.com/blog/2010/02/18/keep-it-goin-louder-arthur-sales-by-milan-vukmirovic/

http://cocoperez.com/2009-11-02-a-dark-day-for-v-magazine

hmmm, this is difficult for me as my initial thought was that this wasn't considered "blackface" necessarily... Blackface is more offensive, something like this:

http://www.sojones.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/poster_blackface.jpg

And then of course I was reminded of this campaign done by UNICEF a couple years ago. Childen in blackface:

http://www.blacklooks.org/2007/07/muddy_uneducated_uncivilized_people_who_need_to_be_educated_probably_by_any_random_westerner.html

*sigh*