Mark Knight drew a cartoon which honed in on Serena William's appalling behaviour at the US Open.
Lets us just remember what cartoonists do. They draw caricatures of people in making a point as the cambridge dictionary shows.
When making a cartoon about Tony Abbott or Obama for that matter large ears are put onto the person.
Serena Williams is by far the largest woman playing tennis and has a reputation for having no dress sense. Hence Knight draws a large black woman in whose dress is in questionable taste.
The definition for racism here is from the oxford dictionary.
If Knight has inferred Willams behaviour was due to her being black,
her appalling dress sense was due to being black,
Her large body was due to her being black then yes he would be racist.
BUT HE DIDN'T.
Another thing if someone or people receive such a cartoon as racist this does not mean it is racist. It merely means the person or persons do not understand what the word racism means!!
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