Ellen DeGeneres was equally impressed by Bolt's almost superhuman speed and decided it was a good idea to tweet this from the Ellen DeGeneres Show's Twitter account.
In the edited photo, DeGeneres is riding piggyback on Bolt, using him for transport. Considering America's history of slavery, where black women and men were listed and sold to labor much like horses and mules, this tweet didn't go over well with many.
The show's tasteless tweet is just another example of the American media's consistent tendency to trivialize, overshadow, or altogether forget the achievements of black Olympic athletes.
The image isn't even funny anyway. The only people laughing at this are single moms who post on their friends' walls with "hi jan hope ur well tell peter i said hi send luv 2 the kids lol xxx", so.
People seeing something that's not there then deciding it's racist
