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

[EDDIE51]

Yes in my opinion.

[Sipowicz]

.......or to be 100% certain that he does have any black in him?

[sp1814]

AOG

No not racist.

But from what I've read in your link, it doesn't sound like Mr Jones is checking, just to be 100-percent certain that he doesn’t have any black in him.

It reads as if he's curious to find out whether he has or hasn't got any black genes.

[Sipowicz]

...and no, I don't think it is racist.

[naomi24]

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

Poorly worded, AOG. He's curious, that's all.

[TWR]

Merthyr, of course he will have black in him, it's a mining area, silly billy.

[Mosaic]

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.

[Mosaic]

Some of the earliest black communities were in port towns, like Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool and London.

[jackthehat]

Not racist but definitely lazy.....

I have always thought that TJ certainly looked to have black ancestry, and his new nose just seemed to emphasise it.

[anotheoldgit]

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.

[anotheoldgit]

Seems strange no one yet has taken the Telegraph to task for their 'black blood' description, isn't all blood red?

[naomi24]

AOG, I see nothing there to indicate that he's having these tests "just to be 100-percent certain that he DOESN'T HAVE ANY BLACK BLOOD IN HIM", as you claim.

I'm not offended - I simply dislike misrepresentation.

[Mosaic]

Not offended AOG, just havin a chat.

[Prudie]

i could see that the drawings could be seen a racist, certainly stereotyping. The words and idea behind it not at all.

[Khandro]

We've all got 'black in us', we all descent from our origins on the African savannah. It's a meaningless test and yes, I suppose a bit racist, as it somehow assumes that there is something amiss with it.

[Gromit]

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.

[naomi24]

Khandro, //I suppose a bit racist, as it somehow assumes that there is something amiss with it. //

Why does it?

[Gromit]

// 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.

[Gromit]

*** = N egro

A naughty Word on AB it seems.

[Khandro]

naomi; as i said, if we've all got the same origins, why would you want to establish that you haven't?