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Google being racists?
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| 07/07/2012
| freeatlanta
Posted on 08/07/2012 7:32:25 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta
Maybe it's an accident, or maybe some insensitive punk slipped one by the honchos, but the Google start page today looks like a black man standing on a watermelon. Blacks and watermelons is a very old stereotype.
Even worse, it is animated. Google Those wacky lefties at Google (90%plus donation to Democrats).
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: google; racists; thatsracist; watermelon
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I suspect it will get changed and disappear from their archives once it gets a little bad press.
To: FreeAtlanta
Yeah...that's very unfortunate. Somebody wasn't looking very close at this graphic.
Of course...I'm skeptical whether anybody working at Google is actually old enough to remember/understand the stereotype. The children at Google are imbued with many, many intellectual deficits, of which this may be just one.
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posted on
08/07/2012 7:37:14 AM PDT
by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
To: FreeAtlanta
Is the track reddish? Are the sidelines green? Just wondering.
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posted on
08/07/2012 7:37:31 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("Ambition Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse")
To: FreeAtlanta
I think its ridiculous.
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posted on
08/07/2012 7:38:42 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
To: FreeAtlanta
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posted on
08/07/2012 7:45:30 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: FreeAtlanta
You’d have to really reach to say that the track he’s running on looks like a watermelon.
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posted on
08/07/2012 7:48:48 AM PDT
by
arderkrag
(ABOs are Romneybot trolls. LOOKING FOR ROLEPLAYERS. Check Profile.)
To: FreeAtlanta
I don’t see it that way. It looks like a track. The green is just carried over from the green in the background.
I can see how someone would interpret it that way, but that’s true with just about anything. And tracks ARE that color.
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posted on
08/07/2012 7:51:08 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: FreeAtlanta
I don’t see it that way. It looks like a track. The green is just carried over from the green in the background.
I can see how someone would interpret it that way, but that’s true with just about anything. And tracks ARE that color.
Now, if they had him EATING a watermelon while he ran, I’d feel a bit differently about it.
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posted on
08/07/2012 7:51:45 AM PDT
by
cuban leaf
(Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
To: arderkrag
I agree. Just looked like a track to me lined with grass.
To: FreeAtlanta
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posted on
08/07/2012 7:56:48 AM PDT
by
LouAvul
To: FreeAtlanta
Can you just imagine the hell that would have broken loose if FoxNews had run that graphic?
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posted on
08/07/2012 7:57:13 AM PDT
by
Pharmboy
(Democrats lie because they must.)
To: cuban leaf
The watermelon eating comes after the race, along with fried chicken and an orange soda to wash it down. Will Google show that?
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posted on
08/07/2012 8:04:50 AM PDT
by
JPG
(Mount your steeds. Nov '12 is for all the marbles.)
To: Responsibility2nd
I figured other people would question it, too. It looks like the slice of watermelon I had yesterday. Green on the outside, red on the inside, and with seeds.
If this were a conservative website, it would be a bad day for them.
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posted on
08/07/2012 8:06:06 AM PDT
by
FreeAtlanta
(Liberty and Justice for ALL)
To: FreeAtlanta
GEEZ seriously, its just a fun little game. Why were you using “evil” Google anyway?
To: FreeAtlanta
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posted on
08/07/2012 8:06:40 AM PDT
by
Iron Munro
("Jiggle the Handle for Barry!")
To: FreeAtlanta
GEEZ seriously, its just a fun little game. Why were you using “evil” Google anyway?
To: FreeAtlanta
Seems to be too much detail to be coincidental. Coupled with the monkey commercial, it does appear the racist libs. at the MSM are showing their true colors.
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posted on
08/07/2012 8:21:04 AM PDT
by
kenmcg
(t)
To: FreeAtlanta
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posted on
08/07/2012 8:27:02 AM PDT
by
mnehring
To: FreeAtlanta
I see why you might conclude that it was purposeful, but I seriously don’t think there was any racist intent.
Besides, in this world nowadays, almost anything is considered racist.
Heck, if they had an animation of two little girls, one black and one white playing pattycake, it would be seen as a white on black beat-down.
EVERYTHING is racist.
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posted on
08/07/2012 8:40:17 AM PDT
by
Gator113
(***YOU GAVE it to Obama. I would have voted for NEWT.~Just livin' life, my way~)
To: ilovesarah2012
Looks like a black guy on a watermelon to me.
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posted on
08/07/2012 8:41:18 AM PDT
by
bgill
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