Please pardon my ignorance, but why after 140 years of being tucked away on the newsagents shelf amongst all the other women's fashion magazines has placing pictures of black people photographed by a black photographer become a great leap forward for the black movement?
It hasn't been a publication I have considered for it's political comments and if as I've always assumed it is a magazine about fashion tips, I haven't heard of Compo from Last of the summer wine being free with tips for the struggling male on their pages therefore I haven't flicked through it's glossy pages so I could be wrong.
However rather than being a success for the black movement it seems more like being a patronising attempt by the magazine to continue fitting in with whatever trend will help it sell to the general public.
I think I will remain blissfully ignorant and refrain from any temptation to buy a copy just to keep on the right side of our badly done to blacks.
