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So has this image been confirmed as the inspiration for this photograph?

If not, then I certainly don't see anything racist about it.

And even if it is, I don't see it as necessarily racist, but curious. It is inherent in the design of propaganda to trigger subconscious reactions to what we are seeing.

Maybe Annie Liebovitz is testing us.

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