@JSawyer330 via Twitter

Every so often, something so ridiculously racist occurs that even in this, the year of our Lord, two thousand and sixteen, it manages to surprise me. This in a time when Donald “Keep the Mexicans off the jurist bench, out of America, but let them build my hotels” Trump is an ACTUAL possibility to represent the United States of America as President. You reasonable motherfuckers better vote. Seriously.


Well, the Red Cross decided to throw their hats into the “You The Real Racist” pool (no pun intended) by brainstorming, creating, mass producing, and publicly displaying one of the most proof-of-institutional racism posters you’ve ever seen. And you’ve seen it because we’ve all seen it. It is a poster that depicts a bunch of kids at a swimming pool under the guideline of “Be Cool, Follow The Rules”, except the only kids following the rules are white kids and all of the children of color are, well, not following the rules and practicing for lifetimes of insubordination, disrespect to institutions, and jail. Us coloreds, we so colored.

The Red Cross, after being informed on social media of the complete fuck up, has since issued one of those non-apology apologies that refers to it as a misunderstanding, but those bitches know good and gotdamn well that it’s an offensive poster. One quick look at it indicates that it is, but just as most unintentional racists do after being called on their unintentional racism, they play the “it was unintentional” card.


If I intend to shoot one person and end up killing another, I’m still a murderer. Those are just facts.

Non-sense aside, the Red Cross was actually pretty thorough with their racism, almost impressively so. I mean, they didn’t leave many ways to improve on their racism. But I figured I’d try since, well, why not. Here are 10 ways the Red Cross poster could have been more racist.

