>I will give you that he favorable reading is that the joke
>was a subversion of an image, but the guys being black is part
>of that image. I don't see how you seperate their race out of
>that image. It's like those old right gaurd commercials with
>charles barkely and david robinson with the same premise.
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzdbaoGczC4

doesn't this commercial play out in the exact same way with a white althete?

i'm not trying to be obstinate here. i haven't had the same experiences with racism that you have so i'm not going to tell you how you should interpret something. it's possible that my inability to empathize is causing me to miss some of the more subtle aspects of racial image subversion