WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?!

i'm standing in line at the grocery store buying milk and staring at the impulse buys/magazines they always have there waiting for you. and i see the cover of people magazine and i'm incensed, yet just aghast at the audacity and complete xenophobic and racist consistency of our american society. over 145,000+ people have died, millions are homeless and destitute and injured, countless numbers of those are children. in asia.

and yet, somehow, amongst all these numbers of children, they found a little blue-eyed, blonde boy to put on the cover. as if that makes the tragedy more horrible to our american society's eyes. as if that makes america wake up more. god forbid they put an asian child on the cover-- well, gosh, i guess that wouldn't translate to magazine sales and america wouldn't get the impact of the tsunami. it just amazes me, once again, at the audacity of our society's continued racism (subtle, yet pure) that our society puts forward every single day. amazing

oh, and p.s., brad and jen broke up, can you believe it? the magazine sales are gonna go through the roof! what other hollywood romances can we build up and then tear down all in the name of ratings and sales? god bless america