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Is This Cartoon Racist?
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http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/11/03/00/2E0D2C0700000578-0-image-a-18_1446512382764.jpg
Tom Jones wants to get his DNA tested, just to be 100-percent certain that he doesn’t have any black in him.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11969379/Sir-Tom-Jones-Im-going-to-have-a-DNA-test-to-see-if-I-have-black-ancestry.html
Tom Jones wants to get his DNA tested, just to be 100-percent certain that he doesn’t have any black in him.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Like SP says, the article is not about TJ disproving he's got black ancestry, more like curiosity about his own ancestral genetic mix.
I find the cartoon distasteful, bit like a cartoon based on Bernard Manning-type values.
I wonder if this was Mac's actual intent, skitting the overfed colonialist as much as the skinny aboriginal.
I think he's done wittier work. This one comes across as cheap.
I find the cartoon distasteful, bit like a cartoon based on Bernard Manning-type values.
I wonder if this was Mac's actual intent, skitting the overfed colonialist as much as the skinny aboriginal.
I think he's done wittier work. This one comes across as cheap.
naomi24
I took my headline from the first link I came to, which was this one.
http://jezebel.com/tom-jones-wonders-am-i-black-1740146775
Mmmm, I thought somehow that some would criticise my headline, but I thought what the hell, but decided to use the Telegraph's report, as this seemed to give a better insight into the story, sorry if I offended anyone.
I took my headline from the first link I came to, which was this one.
http://
Mmmm, I thought somehow that some would criticise my headline, but I thought what the hell, but decided to use the Telegraph's report, as this seemed to give a better insight into the story, sorry if I offended anyone.
No, joke is not racist. The drawing of his black ancestor pool possibly is.
The depiction of a black person to whom Tom Jones might be related to is bizarre. Shrunken heads used by witch doctors is a South American practice, not African.
From the article Jones seems to be of the opinion that he may have *** dna. That is DNA from African people, be them from Africa or the West Indies.
A better setting would have been a sugar plantation.
The depiction of a black person to whom Tom Jones might be related to is bizarre. Shrunken heads used by witch doctors is a South American practice, not African.
From the article Jones seems to be of the opinion that he may have *** dna. That is DNA from African people, be them from Africa or the West Indies.
A better setting would have been a sugar plantation.
// Seems strange no one yet has taken the Telegraph to task for their 'black blood' description, isn't all blood red? //
Because people are used to metaphors and similes. We know the Royals don't literally have 'blue blood'. And that 'black blood' don't literally have black blood. 'Blood diamonds' are not grown from blood.
Because people are used to metaphors and similes. We know the Royals don't literally have 'blue blood'. And that 'black blood' don't literally have black blood. 'Blood diamonds' are not grown from blood.