Talk Show Host Ellen Degeneres A Racist?

Don���t you love it when the left eats its own?

Ellen DeGeneres, she of the very popular Ellen DeGeneres Show (also known as Ellen or The Ellen Show) and one known to be sympathetic to a variety of liberal causes���including that of the LGBT community, of which she���s a prominent member���found herself in some hot water with other liberals over a ���controversial��� meme featuring superstar Olympic sprinter Usain Bolt that she generated and put out on social media.

DeGeneres (or someone working for her) created a custom meme that shows her riding ���piggyback��� on Bolt as he is running, and the image was posted to the official Twitter account of The Ellen Show. The message she wrote to accompany the photo read:

���This is how I���m running errands from now on. #Rio2016���

What was predictable was that some out in the Twittersphere would be offended���or would claim to be offended���by the image of a white woman riding around on the back of a black man. What was perhaps a little more difficult to predict was that people would see such a meme generated by a liberal lesbian and decide that she was a racist.

Well, it happened.

To her credit, after being roundly criticized on Twitter for the post, she tweeted out a simple, ���I am highly aware of the racism that exists in our country. It is the furthest thing from who I am,��� and let the meme stand.

Additionally, large numbers of Twitter users���of all colors���tweeted their support of DeGeneres, and seemed to come down hard on those who saw the meme as racist. For his part, Olympian Bolt retweeted the original post on his own Twitter account.

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large