Is This Cartoon Racist?

[anotheoldgit]

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

[retrocop]

Mr aog
A word to the wise.
Never fess up to mischievousness on this site to prove a point.
I did that,in all innocence, and was suspended for trolling!!!! :-(

[Bazile]

//"we all have to be 'offended"

im not offended retro....far from it...
poor old TJ though ...could be bad news for him...//

Bazwilrun - Why would it be bad news ?

[Retrochic]

Bazille -that's my point -I don't think the majority of people would be offened by the cartoon until the newspapers 'expect' them to be. It like the poppy situation, no one gave it a second thought if you weren't wearing a poppy -now its like you support ISIS or something because you're not wearing one day and night.

[anotheoldgit]

naomi24

/// AOG, that didn't occur to me. How sneaky! Apology rescinded! ///

Didn't you also read my 11.37 reply to you?

Apology rescinded???????????

That is worse than a person not apologising at all, I am truly hurt, and you Naomi have gone so far down in my estimation.

[Old_Geezer]

No, it's just amusing.

With the number of generations prior to us it'd be strange if we didn't all have a variety of race types in the background. Didn't originally everyone come out of Africa ?

[trt]

If he sang ''Old Man River'' we might know.

[Khandro]

Everyone has 'black' ancestry, and everyone, no matter what they say, is racially aware and there is nothing wrong with that. Racism is if you believe one race is superior to another.

[anotheoldgit]

Another Tom Jones (allegedly) quote.

/// A LOT OF BLACK PEOPLE STILL TELL ME I’M JUST PASSING AS WHITE. /// source Jezebel. not my words, or the Daily Mails.

/// A LOT OF BLACK PEOPLE STILL TELL ME I'M JUST PASSING AS WHITE." /// source Telegraph, not my words, or the Daily Mails.

Imagine that said turned around?

Waits to hear the outcry 'RACIST'.

[anotheoldgit]

Old_Geezer

/// Didn't originally everyone come out of Africa ? ///

Not everyone, unless some returned.

[Baldric]

The Cartoon is fine imo, however as has already been said this

///Tom Jones wants to get his DNA tested, just to be 100-percent certain that he doesn’t have any black in him///

suggests Racism regardless of who and where it came from.

[anotheoldgit]

Khandro

/// Racism is if you believe one race is superior to another. ///

Yes and it is not PC to say so, but the fact remains that in some ways, some races are superior to others.

[sp1814]

Oh for Gods sake...

[jomifl]

I always thought that he had Italian ancestry, plenty of Ice cream sellers in South Wales.
As for 'black genes' SP.. which kind did you have in mind? South American, Australian Aboriginal, Borneo Headhunters...

[anotheoldgit]

Baldric

/// 'Im going to have a DNA test to see if I have black ancestry' ///

Have a DNA test/Make 100% Sure/Black Blood/Black Ancestry/Black in Him, just descriptive words does it make any difference?

[jomifl]

/in some ways, some races are superior to others./
Ignoring your failure to understand that there aren't any 'races', (we are all humans) would you care to elaborate?

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// Oh for Gods sake... ///

Say what you mean and then we can have a discussion.

[Jackdaw33]

I think it's very funny. By definition cartoons are grotesque caricatures.

[naomi24]

AOG, I did read what you said at 11.37 but I didn’t study your alternative link to spot the deliberate misappropriation in your original post. I can assure you that after that crafty trick, your low estimation of me in no way equals mine of you.

[Mamyalynne]

It's not racist just rather lazy as cartoons go.

[keyplus90]

Yes. When I saw this in the paper that made me think that all of the black people chop peoples heads off and sell them. Do they? Of course not, have they done in the past? no.