(click pic for bigger)I girded myself this weekend to finally start sorting out my photo's and removing the ones with or connected to the Ex-bitch. Previously this action has been curtailed by depression and nausea. I don't delete them, after all, it happened, we were together, and you can't change history. I look on it as a learning experience, if only the lessons hadn't been so expensive and in the end brutal. I just want to remove them into another folder that can be filed away, so that when I go browsing I am not confronted with her hateful visage all the time.
Any how that's by the by , the reason for this post, is that I came across this image of the above 'objet d'art'. I found it in a gift shop near The Kegon Falls, Nikko, Japan, if I recall it cost the princely sum of ¥750 about £5.00 at the time.
The question is, I find it funny, does that make me a racist?
Am I laughing at the stereotypical depiction of black people, then yes it probably does make me racist.
Am I laughing at the pure kitchness of the object, then I would say no.
Am I laughing at the fact that in these enlightened times a Japanese gift shop, still considers such an item worthy of display and sale. Then I should imagine that yes that is racist against the Japanese as I am imposing my culture on theirs and to the Righteous, that is a complete no-no.
I am in a quandary, but I still find it very funny
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