I probably could have shortened that title to “Is It Racist? Utah” and you’d be like, “uh, yeah, probably,” but let’s just go with this. In a recent issue of Utah Valley Magazine the editors thought it would be super witty and a great pun if they decided to feature a photo of their staff’s women, and it ended up looking this this:

HAHAHAHA, get it? Because they all have different colored CLOOOOOTHES! They don’t actually have any women of different ethnicities on their staff, because Utah, but they DO WEAR BRIGHTLY COLORED JEANS! HAHAHAHA, good joke! When confronted about the possibly racist implications of a caption like that under a photo like that, the editor was like, “whatevs”:

“That was not intended as an ethnic comment,” Bennett [Jeanette Bennett, editor] told me when I called to ask her if she was familiar with the traditional understanding of the adjectival phrase in question. “It was just clever wordplay. It was that women add color, and there’s more than one meaning of color.”

So does her magazine employ any actual women, or even people, of color? “We don’t. I definitely don’t think we’re ethnically diverse. But we did have an article in this issue about the first African American Miss Utah Teen USA.” So there’s that.

Alright, alright. So maybe she wasn’t trying to be an a**hole, but the caption is still definitely awkward and unneeded and probably in poor taste. Maybe she’s not TOTALLY racist, but she probably would put her fancy things in the safe before inviting over the new Miss Utah Teen USA.

It’s up to you, so what do you think? Is it racist?

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