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Default Ellen DeGeneres riding Usain Bolt like a horse
Surprised this hasn't been posted, as apparently it's kicking up quite a fuss on Twitter etc...



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...in-bolt-tweet/


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

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.
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Completely ridiculous that anyone finds this offensive, grow up
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Am I supposed to be offended?
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TS this should be in Celebrity news


FECK ELLEN
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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.
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People want to be offended so bad these days
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It is disgusting to see some keyboard warriors attacking to someone who did so much for equal rights for everybody
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Twitter is full of bored people who play I Spy: Delusional Racism Edition.
Let the dogs bark and the parade go on.
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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.
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The only offensive thing about Ellen is that she isn't funny and yet is seen as the #1 TV personality right now.
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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''
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This wouldn't offend, black people never used whites as horses.
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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
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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?
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