Ellen DeGeneres riding Usain Bolt like a horse

[Toy Soldier]

Surprised this hasn't been posted, as apparently it's kicking up quite a fuss on Twitter etc...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cp7nxqRUkAAUzwy.jpg

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/17/ellen-degeneres-criticised-over-racist-usain-bolt-tweet/


...I personally doubt she meant anything by it, but it is almost satirically misjudged :joker:.

Although part of me is thinking that people have it totally backwards? It is a GOOD thing that she didn't think anything of it when she made it? It shows the sort of "colour-blindness" that should presumably be the "end game" of tackling racism. I don't think she really stopped for a moment and thought about the connotations. She wasn't thinking "this is a photoshopped picture of me riding around on a black man", simply "this is me riding around on a fast man". And that SHOULD be the defining characteristic of an individual... the things about them that make THEM an individual.

[Smithy]

Completely ridiculous that anyone finds this offensive, grow up

[Black Dagger]

Am I supposed to be offended?

[arista]

TS this should be in Celebrity news


FECK ELLEN

[Cherie]

Slow news day?

[Toy Soldier]

Am I supposed to be offended?

Apparently it depicts a "rich, privileged white woman riding a black man around like a donkey" and is therefore offensive.

Like I said though, I actually find it far more offensive that an exceptional, world record breaking individual like Bolt is being reduced to a "faceless representative of race" by the people who are taking offense.

[Jordan.]

People want to be offended so bad these days

[VanessaFeltz.]

It is disgusting to see some keyboard warriors attacking to someone who did so much for equal rights for everybody

[Jamie89]

It's almost offensive that people are offended. They're just looking at Bolt as a black man instead of the rather obvious fact that he's a person who's really, really fast.

[bots]

i was expecting some kinky porn from the title, so I'm quite relieved to see two very happy people celebrating together

[Jessica.]

Isn't she friends with him and he's been on her show a few times. The people who are offended by this are the ones who are identifying people by their race and nothing else.

[AProducer'sWetDream]

Usain Bolt himself even retweeted this. People need to stop looking for things to be offended by and focus on the real race issues in the world.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Yeah the original poster likened it to when white people used black people as horses or levitation devices back in the day but in this case I think Ellen meant no harm. Black people are telling the OP she's reaching.

I think we have to be careful as black people since we're scrutinized and people listening to us comes with conditions, we have to be careful what we put out there.

[arista]

Slow news day?



No its TS
this is a Celebrity News Thread

[Crimson Dynamo]

disgraceful racism from that woman

oh she meant no harm, my friends are all black or at least have black housemaids

aye right you racist hag

[y.winter]

Twitter is full of bored people who play I Spy: Delusional Racism Edition.
Let the dogs bark and the parade go on.

[Withano]

This is the most nothing story. I read it this morning and was so confused by the world I live in. No idea how anybody was offended.

[armand.kay]

social justice warriors on twitter and tumblr are the bane of the internet.

[Shaun]

The only offensive thing about Ellen is that she isn't funny and yet is seen as the #1 TV personality right now.

[VanessaFeltz.]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqE6XQbXEAAq0Aa.jpg:large

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Twitter is full of bored people who play I Spy: Delusional Racism Edition.
Let the dogs bark and the parade go on.

Don't go overboard now. Just because someone found this offensive doesn't mean a lot of other cases are ''delusional racism'':nono:

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqE6XQbXEAAq0Aa.jpg:large

This wouldn't offend, black people never used whites as horses.

[Crimson Dynamo]

This wouldn't offend, black people never used whites as horses.

:joker:

[Jamie89]

The only offensive thing about Ellen is that she isn't funny and yet is seen as the #1 TV personality right now.

Honestly so offensive http://i.imgur.com/oF0yUaX.jpg?2

[Toy Soldier]

No its TS
this is a Celebrity News Thread
I forgetted that threads have to be about terrorism to be in Serious Debates. I have short term remembery loss.

I should have said, "Maybe she is also did it for a terrorist reason" and then it could have stayed?

[the truth]

i refuse to add a comment as this is such a non story.............oh dear i just did... doh

[Vicky.]

https://media.giphy.com/media/Eufq2u6V4e4QE/giphy.gif

[Ninastar]

I saw this and literally loled... There are some people so determined to paint all white people as racist, that they'll say one of the most accepting, equality fighters in the whole of the US is 'racist'. Ellen and Bolt are friends. She's always spoken up against racism and has always been for equality. I bet these people wouldn't say a thing if it this was Oprah and she edited herself on Tom Daley mid backflip pirouette spin twirl

[Maru]

It is disgusting to see some keyboard warriors attacking to someone who did so much for equal rights for everybody

Also, I don't know why anyone expects everyone famous to be their civil rights hero. For a culture that hates controlling regimes, it sure is controlling about how other people are allowed to dictate themselves. It just takes so much energy to keep up. Why can't people just have a laugh and not worry so much about the smallest of offenses it could cause? :shrug:

So much more to life than politics even.