black dog
Free America
He could have made it realistic.....
Looks like black Rocky or Arnold, just holding a racket instead of a 60 or a minigun.
Cartoonist Slammed As 'Racist' For Serena Williams Cartoon
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He could have made it realistic.....
Looks like black Rocky or Arnold, just holding a racket instead of a 60 or a minigun.
This_person
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I am not in denial or ####ing retarded, so I have to ask what about it is inappropriate and racist.
If he wasn't a raging racist he would have made her caricature look like her instead of some Ubangi headhunter.
You're just pissed because you know she could kick your ass.
Toxick
Splat
It doesn't matter what I say.
Seriously
If that is your response I see absolutely no path to an intellectually honest resolution.
So if you can't (or more likely, won't) see it, then I got nothing for you.
As I said in my first post, the caricature looks like something from a 1940's Bugs Bunny bit. When I saw the picture, I had no context. I didn't know who it was supposed to be, and I hadn't yet heard about Williams' kerfuffle with the ref. And my first thought was "WTF? Racist much?"
Even if the artist wasn't trying to be racially insensitive (and I'm sure that's probably true)I'm amazed the editor let that image pass QA. Regardless of intent - that image is just wrong.
This_person
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I think we can have an intellectually positive conversation.
Out of context, there's certainly two racial components to it. IN context, I HONESTLY just don't see it.
Here's my reasoning; in context, an athlete was acting in at least a very unsportsmanlike manner. As such, she is being ridiculed by the cartoonist. She happens to be a masculine black woman who dresses in unconventional ways. He took all of that and exaggerated it to ridicule her antics, including the destruction of her own racket.
It's Burt Reynolds being lampooned with "Turd Ferguson", or any of thousands of other SNL skits. That's what comics and cartoonists do.
He'd enjoy the experience though... ;-)
black dog
Free America
LOL.. I tend to act like a civil human when I'm at work at least.....
And I don't stand there and point my finger and stompy feet and demand that
someone " Owes " me an apology while ranting... It's not fair.. it's not fair... It's not fair....
And I've never told any of my customers to f off or FU... That's for sure.
She's pulled these childish shenanigans her entire career...
Well, Serena's a professional athlete, not a McDonald's fry cook.
I can't speak for Tox, but my take is that you are trying to convince me that you HONESTLY don't see that the sky is blue, and you're asking someone to debate it with you. Others may enjoy that sort of back and forth, but I do not.
black dog
Free America
black dog
Free America
Your good at going low... It's a great platform for running a business..
This_person
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No, I am trying to say that racism and sexism (by definition) requires a belief of superiority and/or inferiority. Toxic specifically said that he believes that not to be the case in this instance. So, we're left with it being inappropriate because it reminds some people of drawings done that did have the belief behind it.
The problem is in the mind of the beholder, not the drawing. That's the point I'm trying to make.
This_person
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And, as an aside, the sky is NOT blue, it's transparent. Look up at 10 PM tonight and you will see I am correct.
Smokey1
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Doesn't matter what some leftists call racism, the dictionary is the only authority on what is really racist and this doesn't fit the definition.
In your version, which characteristics would you exaggerate?
black dog
Free America
truby20
Fighting like a girl
None of the matters, all of my Posts were deleted by your Ruler, Dems win both the House and Senate in 18, Trump reverts as a Dem.