After filling out an online survey about a product I recently purchased, the company offered me a free year’s subscription for up to four magazines on their list. It was pretty extensive and showed a recent cover for each one. There was Entertainment Weekly, Reader’s Digest, Entrepreneur… and then there was Ebony. “Wait a sec… Nah, that can’t be right.” So I clicked on the magazine and zoomed in on the cover. Sure enough, the person on the cover of Ebony was Michael Jackson.
I guess the article was about the 25 years after Thriller (back when he had slightly pigmented skin and some semblance of a nose), but seriously, is he still considered ebony at this point? Shouldn’t he just get his own color in the crayon box or something? Still, I guess that’s better than putting him on the cover of some of the others. Like Good Housekeeping. Or Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine. Or FamilyFun. Yeah, parents would love that one…
