No offense, but this is childish.
First of all, why are you outraged that white people would prop up white women as the most beautiful? Isn't that normal? If you had a magazine wouldn't you prop up black women as the most beautiful?
Beauty is subjective. White people like white women, black people like black women, asians like asian women,
martians like martian women.
I understand where you are coming from on that, but here's the thing: America has always been a multiracial society. Has it been a peaceful multiracial society? No. But it has been a multiracial society none the less.
The problem has always been that White women in particular have always been placed on a prop of God given excellence, but other women (Black, Native, Mixed, etc;) would be seen as lower then White women. Which is funny, considering how these same White men propping these White women up would be quick to fukk a Black, Native, or Mixed woman behind closed doors. But I digress.
You can't be a culture with a variety of ethnicities, but act like only one is above and beyond everybody else.
People magazine has always been a magazine about Hollywood for the most part and for the past few decades, Hollywood has had a diverse selection of actors, but that diversity has been ignored for the most part and it isn't because people don't want to see it.
I must agree with a few others in this thread, after all these years, what has taken them so long to really prop a non-White woman up? So, I can see why some feel like Lupita is being used as a token. Even though I ain't dragging home girl through the mud like some of y'all.
Non-White women have every right to be apart of the dominant scene as White women, if not more.