GAP is racist!!!

I didn't see racism in this. I saw a poorly executed ad, but not any racism. Could've been done better to avoid this mess.

Yeah I didn't either...

I think it's ridiculous to call it racism, especially when you see the other picture where they've staged it the opposite way around in the past. But it's not a great photo set-up. It looks awkward. Maybe they should stop using children's heads as armrests full-stop.

how is this racist? you are imposing racial politics upon school kids and creating your own non-existent context - there is nothing else that makes it racist. these are innocent kids and you are portraying them as nothing more than a skin colour. if this was a kid with ginger hair leaning on a kid with green eyes, would that imply that somehow ginger kids are superior to kids with green eyes? stop stirring up pointless drama

I originally thought "are they saying that, because the black girl isn't stretching her legs, that she is unable to do gymnastics and therefore less good than the white girls...?" because it was so difficult to see anything wrong with that picture

and by the way, just so you know, this was an older GAP advert - where was the rage?

hypocrisy at its finest "it's only bad when whitey does it."

This is so stupid. I swear that most of the Black Americans look for things like this and say it's racist just to spark arguments and attention. I just hate it. And it's not racist because if you bothered looking down the page a black girl did the exact same thing and no one complained! Argh - this just annoys me.

This is so stupid. I swear that most of the Black Americans look for things like this and say it's racist just to spark arguments and attention. I just hate it. And it's not racist because if you bothered looking down the page a black girl did the exact same thing and no one complained! Argh - this just annoys me.

It is normally white people who call it racist first.

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No I don't think this is passive/ hidden racism. It's just a pose, a badly positioned photograph but that is all there is. I doubt there was any intention behind it.

Here is a very clear example of hidden racism.

[video="youtube;61IMXm3SDGA"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61IMXm3SDGA[/video]

Nearly all white ladies on the train instantly took side with each other, made out they were better educated ("I work at google plus, SHUT UP" and better dressed ("LOOK AT HER SHOES" than the black lady on the train, they were incredibly disrespectful to her when asking to change seats. That to me is passive racism. Being discriminatory without airing it clearly out in the open.

Ugh that video makes me so angry!