Is This Racist?

[milly143]

Last night the bf was playing Football Manager on his laptop and as I looked over his shoulder I noticed there was a little picture of one of the players on his team. This guy happened to be black. I then noticed the players name above the picture which was the inital of his first name with his surname. The name was A Blackman.

Is it wrong that I thought it was really funny?

[Bobbisox]

I certainly wouldn't see this as racist milly

[milly143]

OK, that's two people who haven't said it is. That'll do me.

I think its FM11. He said it's better then FM10 if that's of any use. He must think it's good cos he's on it all the sodding time.

[milly143]

ha ha. Between that and Fifa 11 I can see why.

[milly143]

I thought all the players on FM were real?

I'm pretty sure he wouldn't have made that up himself.

[milly143]

Well I couldn't find anything by Googling but Angel-Reborn supplied the name Aaron so he must be real. I think he was playing as Wimbledon so he's hardly going to be a household name.

[jackthehat]

There are many surnames that seem to have been given/taken specifically due to the colour of the person they were handed to.......

In Northamptonshire there is a black family named 'Licorish'; I have never met a white person with that name....and often wondered if it was 'because'..........

[milly143]

OH! I found him!! Andre Blackman.

http://www.afcwimbled...uad.php?Psection_id=3

I was getting a bit worred Mr Milly might have made it up.

It's more worrying that they have a player called Haydon the Womble....

[milly143]

Oh god, I'm sooooo dumb sometimes. Haydon the Womble is the mascot. lol

[Zeuhl]

You're amusement could be defined as 'racial' but not necessarily 'racist'

To my mind racist and racism are appropriate where there is an inherent assumption of inferiority or negativity about a person or group based on ethnicity. Clearly not the case for you.