Am I supposed to be mad about LeBron?

It's the title of the sports news I came accross on MSN.foxsports.com.

This concerns the "big buzz" created by the latest issue of Vogue magazine that has NBA superstar LeBron James and supermodel Gisele Bundchen on the cover.

Going the other way, the sports writer (who's also a black person) Jason Whitlock did not take offense on the mag's theme.

The main idea (to LeBron and his handler) was "LeBron clutching a pretty white woman on the latest cover of Vogue, and the image conjures up the idea that LeBron can race up court with a basketball and a supermodel."

But "according to the allegations, King James looks like King Kong clutching Fay Wray on the latest cover of Vogue, and the image, according to potential handbook writers, "conjures up this idea of a dangerous black man."

He said: I'm telling you we need a handbook. We need something athletes, entertainers, black and white folks can easily refer to when deciding how to react to the images we choose to project.

Do we really need to adapt a standard when it comes to tackling or tapping things that will involve race just to avoid being tagged as racist? A Handbook of Race Sensitivity perhaps?

Confusing eh?