Photo: Michael Vick controversial white picture

ESPN is under high pressure after releasing a photoshopped picture of Michael Vick featuring a white face. The photo aimed at being published along with the ESPN article “What if Michael Vick was white?”

Shortly after the antagonistic reaction to the “white image”, which was revealed on ESPN’s website, editors swapped the troubling image with a real picture of Mr Vick. But the change did not last long and ESPN restored once again the controversial photo.
The picture and title were added to column signed by cultural critic Toure on how Vick’s race contributed to the positive and negative sides of his life.

Toure did not specifically highlighted the controversial image, on contrary he stated: “I mean, who would this white Vick be? When you change his race, it’s like those Back to the Future movies where someone goes back in time, inadvertently changes one small thing about his parents’ dating history and then the person starts to disappear. If Vick had been born to white parents, you wouldn’t even be reading this right now. That Vick would have had radically different options in life compared with the Vick who grew up in the projects of Newport News, Va., where many young black men see sports as the only way out.”
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In a Twitter statement Toure revealed that he requested editors not to employ “What if Michael Vick were white?” as a headline of the post. Furthermore he was not asked his oppinion about what kind of image to be chosen. “Blame me for the story, not the art”, Toure added.

It is somehow stunning to see how a simple Photoshop task managed to raise countless controversial race-related debates in US.