i call foul

(Spotted at Stereohyped, where I tried to post this comment but it didn't seem to work)

This kind of imagery is as old as photography, though it never ceases to shock me. The more common and insidious permutation of it is when people of color are just exotic backdrops, as in the new Free People catalog and the May '07 (page 4) Anthropologie catalog.

I like both of those stores, and Free People strives to be progressive (and indeed defended the image at the link above), but it's samo, samo bullshit. Just once, show me the reverse. Just once. I'm sure it doesn't exist.