VOGUE cover turns heads

Just when you thought Vice was mixing it up by hiding a BMW ad on the front cover, VOGUE steps into the ring with this:

I initially thought, “What’s the big deal? It’s LeBron and Gisele, two celebs fitter than fiddles. ‘Cept Gisele’s dress is kinda lame.” But then I read what the more critical eyes saw: “Others, however, see it as the embodiment of racial and sexual stereotypes, that it’s a depiction of an aggressive, black man in a King Kong-like pose, embracing a white woman, a Fay Wray-like ‘damsel in distress.’” Source

Oh. I guess I can see that now, too. But riddle me this: is it better to see the racial connotations and object, or to not see them at all?