Ellen DeGeneres defends her Usain Bolt tweet some claimed was racist

[Buckeye_Democrat]

35. It's very racist.

It's just like the time that I was racist to a female co-worker who was an Ahiska Turk.

I was brewing beer at home in those days, and I'd been making several English ales because they were quick and easy. I bought a shirt that said, "The blood of Anglo-Saxons flows through my veins. And sometimes... their beer!" The shirt had the old English flag on it, which I learned later was called "St. George's Cross."

I noticed that the Muslim woman kept scowling at me as I passed her to do my quality checks. I assumed it was because the shirt made a reference beer, an alcoholic beverage.

My manger later told me that she didn't appreciate me wearing a shirt with a symbol that had been displayed on shields and flags during the Crusades.

That war happened about 1000 years ago and I wasn't aware that the red cross of the English flag was displayed by the European Christians, but I now understand that I'm a racist because white people partook in that war against Muslims and my lack of knowledge about the flag was no excuse.

Here's the shirt so people can protest it: http://www.cafepress.com/mf/14408921/anglosaxon-blood-and-beer_tshirt