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J.K. Rowling blasts 'racist' Serena newspaper cartoon
TMZ ^ | September 10, 2018 | Staff

Posted on 09/10/2018 9:08:03 AM PDT by Trump20162020

This is not good.

A newspaper in Australia is catching A LOT of heat over a cartoon that was trying to spoof Serena Williams' incident at the U.S. Open -- because it's racist as hell.

The cartoon -- drawn by Mark Knight (editorial cartoonist for the Herald Sun newspaper) -- shows the tennis superstar stomping on her racket.

But, let's get serious, it looks like a Jim Crow-era, Sambo-style caricature of a black person -- not Serena Williams.

(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...


TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: australia; cartoon; jkrowling; markknight; newspaper; newspapers; serenawilliams; tennis; usopen
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1 posted on 09/10/2018 9:08:03 AM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Trump20162020

White Liberals are the first to call racism in any and everything.


2 posted on 09/10/2018 9:09:03 AM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (A bad peace is better than a good war.)
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To: Trump20162020
Jim Crow-era, Sambo-style caricature

No, actually ... it does look like Serena Williams ...

3 posted on 09/10/2018 9:10:49 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Trump20162020

Blah blah blah


4 posted on 09/10/2018 9:11:00 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Trump20162020

That’s pretty much what happened.


5 posted on 09/10/2018 9:11:19 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Islamophobia. A word created by fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons. -- Andrew Cummins)
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To: Trump20162020

It happened in Arthur Ashe stadium. This racism stuff really is too much.


6 posted on 09/10/2018 9:12:52 AM PDT by Vic S
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To: Trump20162020

Racist? Kind of looks like her to me, both in portrayal and action.


7 posted on 09/10/2018 9:13:21 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: NorthMountain

Just what I was going to say. So now liberals are putting limits on how black people should look in reality.


8 posted on 09/10/2018 9:13:23 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Vox populi, vox dei)
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To: Trump20162020

I LOVE that cartoon! A+
“A” for Accuracy in it’s essence.
That is exactly the way Serena came across the other day.
Just an over aged, over privileged, overweight, overrated BABY!

The Officials were also shown for what they are;
Catering, patronizing, lying Moneygrabbers.
“Can’t you just let her win?”


9 posted on 09/10/2018 9:13:32 AM PDT by lee martell (AT)
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To: Trump20162020

What’s ‘racist’ about that cartoon? I recall a cartoon during the GWB days of Condoleeza Rice where she was portrayed as a parrot with big lips, sitting on GWB’s shoulder. No outcry about that being ‘racist’ ...


10 posted on 09/10/2018 9:13:40 AM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a' white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: Trump20162020

Why is the other player a skinny, big-boobed blonde, instead of the actual opponent, a very tall, powerfully-built lady with dark skin and hair?


11 posted on 09/10/2018 9:13:42 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("Kindness and truth shall meet." Ps. 85:10)
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To: Trump20162020
You've seen the videos of chair throwing brawls at McDonalds over french fries. Some people are naturally inclined to act that like that when they don't get their way. It's turns out even worse when they are illegally carrying. Look at Chicago, Baltimore, or Memphis.
 
12 posted on 09/10/2018 9:13:43 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.")
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To: NorthMountain
#3: "No, actually ... it does look like Serena Williams ... ".

I agree.
 

13 posted on 09/10/2018 9:14:49 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ("Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.")
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To: Trump20162020

Never understood the appeal of this JK Rowling. I read the first Harry Potter book, got about 30% before I was bored out of my mind and just could not finish it. I really suspect all those books she sold were more of a status thing with kids rather than them actually reading them.


14 posted on 09/10/2018 9:16:08 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Vox populi, vox dei)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“You’ve seen the videos of chair throwing brawls at McDonalds over french fries. Some people are naturally inclined to act that like that when they don’t get their way.”

Serena Williams got into a chair throwing brawl at McDonald’s?


15 posted on 09/10/2018 9:16:28 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
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To: Trump20162020
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You're only allowed to make racist cartoons about black Republicans.

16 posted on 09/10/2018 9:16:47 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: Trump20162020

‘Scuze me J. K., but ain’t calling us ‘Muggles’ kinda racist?


17 posted on 09/10/2018 9:19:23 AM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: rlmorel
I suppose the big lips are what set them off. Those are exaggerated compared to her own. But it's a caricature, that's what caricaturists do.

Did JK Rowling complain when cartoonist Oliphant did this one?


18 posted on 09/10/2018 9:20:05 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: Trump20162020
Back in 1983, a cartoon with a player who looked like John McEnroe being hung from a scaffold graced the cover of Punch.

Don't recall anyone having a cow about that.

19 posted on 09/10/2018 9:20:45 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: NorthMountain

...Jim Crow-era...

Lest we forget,the Jim Crow era was a democrat created period.
However, blacks are off limits for any satire because of their color.


20 posted on 09/10/2018 9:21:27 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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