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Rod Liddle

Is it possible to draw Serena Williams without being racist?

15 September 2018

9:00 AM

15 September 2018

9:00 AM

I have spent the morning trying to draw a cartoon of a black person without it being racist. It’s bloody difficult. Especially the lips. Make them too big and anti-racist people will accuse you of being a white supremacist peddling, in their words, the old ‘sambo’ myth. But too small and they don’t look like the lips of very many black people.

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