Are you seriously claiming you dont know what the 12% means?
At the time, no, it didn't occur to me. Now I'm guessing that it is supposed to be the percentage of the population that is black. I'm not sure how that answers my original question to you, though.
You fail at the obvious.
You continue to avoid answering the question. Is your argument that since there were whites who voted for Obama, racism is not an issue in the US?
Racism is way overblown in America.
Blacks see it even when it's not there.
I wore this T-shirt to a restaurant in Marble Falls Texas and a black family had a hissy fit and told the manager that it was racist and he wanted us kicked out.
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Do you see the shirt as racist?
I'm not sure why that would be considered racist, unless there's some Mickey Mouse racism connection I'm unaware of. I mean, I think I've read that Disney himself may have been somewhat of a racist, but that would be a pretty big stretch.
I think racism is both overblown and underblown. Some people see racism anywhere. Some people refuse to see it anywhere.![]()
Like I said, if it had been a depiction of Obama as a chimp eating a banana, then yeah, it would be considered racist, because blacks have been associated with chimps as a lower form of life by racists for years.
Saying something is Mickey Mouse on the other hand, is simply saying that you think the person or subject being called such is cartoonish and ineffective. Has been that way in the American psyche for years, so no, depicting Obama wearing a Mickey Mouse hat isn't racist. That is a commentary on the cartoonish president that some see Obama as.