Is this impersonation of Serena Williams racist

[TlalocW]

42. Eh, it kind of depends

If they're friends, this could be seen as tweaking them as an individual. Maybe at a televised game wasn't the best choice of venues.

For instance, I, a honky, was good friends with my grad school's Hispanic Student Services Coordinator and did a lot of work with him and the organizations he advised because of my interest in Hispanic/Latin culture. One time, while chatting in his office, a student came in and said there were some people walking around campus dressed in large sombreros and panchos. He went out to investigate while I went to class. They were thinking this was some sort of frat hazing, but they found out it was 3 guys from a Christian group advertising a talk about, "The Three Amigos - Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost." If it had been hazing, my friend probably would have raised a small stink about it, but these guys got a small lecture on making sure they were being respectful of the culture while doing what they were doing. Later that night, however, I went over to his house for dinner dressed in a large sombrero, Mexican blanket, etc. When he answered the door, I asked (heavily accented), "Did chu catch those pendejos making fun of la Raza?" And I did that knowing that we got each others' senses of humor, and I was tweaking him. He cracked up over it. But someone seeing that from, "the outside," could very misconstrue what was going on.

So short story long, it depends.

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