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You know, the one that cast LeBron James as King Kong and Gisele Bündchen as that distressed blonde Fay Wray. Or not. Wesley Morris thinks it’s much less interesting than the rest of us did.

I, for one, have racism fatigue. I’m wiped out. Between the outrage over Obama’s Jeremiah Wright problems and Bill Clinton’s unbelievable mutation from American’s first black president into Karl Rove, I don’t have the bandwidth to fight Anna Wintour. Seeing that cover as purely racist doesn’t give the people looking at it enough credit. It dates Vogue for relying on the allusion but it also dates us for going crazy over it. Racial hysteria is the old black. Maybe it’s so old it’s avant-garde—veryVogue.