I stand by the last sentence in my post.
If he wasn't a Raging Racist he would have made her caricature look like Jackie O.
He could have made it realistic.....
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Looks like black Rocky or Arnold, just holding a racket instead of a 60 or a minigun.
I am not in denial or ####ing retarded, so I have to ask what about it is inappropriate and racist.
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.
You're just pissed because you know she could kick your ass.
You're just pissed because you know she could kick your ass.
LOL.. I tend to act like a civil human when I'm at work at least.....
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.
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.
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.
If you don't want to be characterized as a Walmart big Mama offended.
You shouldn't act like one.
Is it racist? Yes, probably, at least at today's description of racist.
Actually it isn't any worse than some of the things I have seen caricatured of Donald Trump.
If he wasn't a raging racist he would have made her caricature look like her instead of some Ubangi headhunter.