It was the photographer's fuck-up, not the AP brain-trust. He made the crop and sent it to the AP mothership for distribution. I doubt the editors saw the full-frame version until the controversy erupted.

Katie? Katie got Charles' password! You can tell by the stupid devise hot take. On second thought that's pretty much the Stranger now.

It's not her mess up. She made sure they were in the photo. It's the AP trying to whitewash things so that Comrade Trump won't set his Na See goons on them.

There ain't no purity test like a liberal purity test.

Well that was Bleak.

Two typos, Chas:
(or the our metabolic relations
they are not (and never where) the same

Probably explains why I never see black people driving Prius.

Intersectional knife fight!

Normal people just sit back and enjoy the popcorn.

Americans will Never, Ever Stop Worshipping Precocious Little Girls.

@9 - Since Shirley Temple for sure.

Well, it looks like climate hysteria is going to be turned into another hustle.

@12 -- if the Capitalists cannot make a Killing on it, no one can.

Why is it unsurprising that the ones bringing up Greta Thunberg's race are RACISTS, THEMSELVES?

I would apply Hanlon's Razor, "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity." Charles reaction however speaks volumes to the damage racism has done to the psyche.

I do agree Chuck (Chas? Charlie?) that there's a melanin free metric fuck-ton of white privilege steering the whole show damn climate show at the moment, prescribing what's what both too and for the browns. It's a neocolonial structure that in the end isn't going to work. The clipping out of the Black girl and figuring the Indian girl as a version of doesn't-get-whiter-than-Swedish Thunberg certainly is emblematic of the problem.

Not saying Thunberg is perfect, but she is several kilometers ahead of Slog commenters, so how about we disable comments and fuck off to a nearby bar.

How in the holy fuck is this Greta Thunberg's fault in any way? This is a bad AP decision and nothing to do with Greta.

Marketing decisions are what they are.

It's a shame, but we all know that the precocious white girl is going to sell way more carbon credits than the precocious black girl. This is a long, elaborate plan, none of this happened organically. Thunberg was chosen for this campaign solely because of her race, age, and her autism/FAS.

Human nature takes a long time to change, and marketers are not going to ignore it for warm fuzzies.

My SUV is black. Just saying.

Nice call @17. To be honest, it was a pretty shitty photograph based on the positioning. They should have cropped all 5 of them into the round file.

The human race cannot die off soon enough.

We do rich white liberals love telling other people how to live their lives? Sounds almost Republican?

Jesus Christ, Charles. Give it a rest. Your schtick is so old.

It's always something.

"I'm oppressed too! Where's MY 'forty acres and a mule... '"

Were your great- and great-great-grandparents
subject to Sale to ... whomever, Mr. Bee?

Was your Race subjected to three
hundred and fifty years of Terrorism?

Were you subjected to redlining by banks, exclusion
by neighborhoods and villages and towns and, if
you remained in town after sunset, your (and
your Progeny's) Life was in
someone else's hands?

Are you subjected to arrest three or four
or ten times more than Black people?

Having a real Hard Time viewing
your Oppression, Mr. Bee.
Mightn't you enlighten us?

The crop was incredibly stupid and tone deaf, but how does this make it Greta Thunberg's problem. Are young girls to be judged by their race?

Gretasowhite