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

[anotheoldgit]

jomifl

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

No races????? Have you announced this to all the races in the world, I am sure they will be as surprised by your discovery as I am.

"We are all humans" ???? yet another discovery that you have made is it? How quaint, I bet not many know that?

[Baldric]

AOG, as you know I referred to

((Tom Jones wants to get his DNA tested, just to be 100-percent certain that he doesn’t have any black in him))
and qualified it with

///it suggests Racism *regardless of who and where* it came from.///

And it still suggests Racism imo.

[anotheoldgit]

naomi24

Chill out Naomi, don't you ever get a little mischievous at times, I haven't committed a cardinal sin, except to get a hook in some top lips, but not to worry I empty my keep net when I sign off.

[naomi24]

AOG, I don't like disingenuous people - but make no mistake, I'm always chilled out.

[sp1814]

AOG

What were you trying to achieve with your mischievousness?

I don't understand why you didn't clarify that your quote was from another source.

It seems very reductive to me.

[Mamyalynne]

Well that's everyone told - just another days fishing.

[Baldric]

AOG, you are not 'hooking' anyone,

You have reproduced a Racist statement and don't like being picked up on it!

[wolf63]

AOG - you have surely worn out your wooden spoon, maybe Santa will bring you another one.

:-)

[sp1814]

AOG

Were you deliberately trying to get posters to attack you?

Surely that's something you abhor?

The problem with this thread is that the casual observer might not clock that you were quoting from another source and will assume that the question is yours.

I think you should take that on board the next time someone makes an assumption as to your intentions.

Be as mischievous as you want, but always remember that people have fractured memories. What might be taken from this is something you don't want.

[Mamyalynne]

Or a Magimix?

[Khandro]

AOG; I'm sorry to have to break this to you, but your great, great, g,g,g,............ granddad was an African! and you've got lot's of French relatives too! The first traces of modern humans are now dated as far back as 90,000 years ago in the African continent. In Europe, where they first appear about 35,000 years ago, they are known as Cro-Magnon from the place in Dordogne, France, where remains of them were first discovered.

[wolf63]

Mamy - a Magimix is a bit more expensive, the wooden spoon will have to do for now.

[anotheoldgit]

Baldric

My original question was "Is This Cartoon Racist"?

Now one can debate on whether it is or whether it isn't, but somehow this thread has turned on the way that I chose to extract my remark on.

But to get back to your comment "And it still suggests Racism imo"

Can you please explain why "(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 to you?

Is it the words "just to be 100 per cent certain that he doesn't have any black blood in him"?

If so, place yourself in his position wouldn't you want to be 100% certain, it is not saying that he will be extremely disappointed if he has, or even if he hasn't.

If it is the words "Black Blood" that is upsetting you, then Gromit has already put us straight on that point.

[jackthehat]

African AND French.......Nurse! fetch AOG some smelling-salts....

[anotheoldgit]

naomi24

/// AOG, I don't like disingenuous people - but make no mistake, I'm always chilled out. ///

Then it would seem that we have both made the wrong impression of each other then doesn't it?

[Gromit]

It doesn't really matter that the quote was someone elses.

You first passed it off as your own. You know the covention of putting // for quotes from others, and you didn't use it.
And you didn't notice it was an incorrect representation of Jones' words (or you did, but were happy to misrepresent him).

[Baldric]

Answered that @ 13:10 with ///The Cartoon is fine imo,///

Then picked up on your (uncredited) paragraph;

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

The phrase " just to be 100-percent certain that he doesn’t have any black in him" suggests Racism on his part.

Ah, now I get it, you thought we meant Racism on your part, not his, didn't you?

Now why on Earth would you ever think that I wonder?

[tamborine]

Black sheep, more likely

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// I don't understand why you didn't clarify that your quote was from another source. ///

Why do I alone always have to explain where I took my quote from?

It would make a change if some just answered the question set instead of always trying to be so pedantic.

I don't see why I should point this out but here goes, after I had seen the cartoon, which was the main reason for my thread.

I googled 'Tom Jones' and the latest post to come up was the Jezebel one, so I entered the words in that report, just to give my thread some content.

Then I thought that some might want a more in depth report, so being careful not to pick a Daily Mail one (knowing the sensitivity of some on here) I chose the Telegraph.

Then before I clicked Submit button, I read through my thread, and when I re-read the Jezebel words, I thought oh dear there are going to be some on here that will focus on them, but not wanting to reconstruct my thread for the sake of the over sensitive, I said "What the Hell" to myself and pressed Submit.

See how hard work it is to try and satisfy the over sensitive ABers on this site?