Ellen DeGeneres defends her Usain Bolt tweet some claimed was racist

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177. When we make sexist comments about women and those comments are unintentonal and not meant

to hurt women DOES NOT MEAN that those things won't be offensive or cause injury. The goal here is to learn WHY these things exist and still do impact us in adverse ways. It doesn't matter the intent if the result is still injury.

Again, I give the example of Native Americans who are upset by sports teams and how those negative images of the Natives actually hurts them because they are treated differently, whether intentional or not.

Asians, too, have long spoken out against images in the media and how they are depicted in martial arts, for example. Does not having the intent to harm mean that no harm was done?

Ellen is not a racist. I am confident of that. But some viewed her joke as conjuring up racially insensitive images that, again, have harmed black people. And again, that is a fact whether she knows it or not and whether Bolt was offended or not.