Google being racists?

Google Start page ^ | 07/07/2012 | freeatlanta

[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).

[FreeAtlanta]

I suspect it will get changed and disappear from their archives once it gets a little bad press.

[Milton Miteybad]

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.

[SkyDancer]

Is the track reddish? Are the sidelines green? Just wondering.

[cripplecreek]

I think its ridiculous.

[Responsibility2nd]

You're not the first one to notice this.

[arderkrag]

You’d have to really reach to say that the track he’s running on looks like a watermelon.

[cuban leaf]

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.

[cuban leaf]

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.

[ilovesarah2012]

I agree. Just looked like a track to me lined with grass.

[LouAvul]

Racists, or realists?

[Pharmboy]

Can you just imagine the hell that would have broken loose if FoxNews had run that graphic?

[JPG]

The watermelon eating comes after the race, along with fried chicken and an orange soda to wash it down. Will Google show that?

[FreeAtlanta]

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.

[fred4prez]

GEEZ seriously, its just a fun little game. Why were you using “evil” Google anyway?

[Iron Munro]

[fred4prez]

GEEZ seriously, its just a fun little game. Why were you using “evil” Google anyway?

[kenmcg]

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.

[mnehring]

Oh good grief.

[Gator113]

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.

[bgill]

Looks like a black guy on a watermelon to me.