What's wrong with this cartoon?

This was forwarded to me. I'd like to know what others think.
http://www.philly.com/philly/photos/sports_photos/119059404.html

 

Oops.

 

Having this discussion elsewhere. Drawing the Phillies' offense as a white guy would have been wrong, unless you were only talking about Hunter Pence.

 

The Phillies only have one African-American regular in the starting lineup.
A cartoon with a black guy laying on a couch sleeping is very stereotypical. No way should this have appeared in the paper.

 

I never noticed the race of either player.

But no one uses corded phones any more.

 

What isn't wrong with this cartoon? The offense guy has major sleep apnea issues. Bacon is bad for you. Cliff Lee, based on the bubbles floating above his head, appears to be drunk. And who the hell wears their uniforms around the house? And yeah, the corded phone.

If the offense was populated mostly by white guys and the cartoonist picked a black guy to represent them, then yeah, that's a problem. But what's your argument, Drip? Only white people should be portrayed negatively? I guess I was too busy actually seeing them as people to fixate on their pigmentation.

I'm pretty pissed off they insisted on making Cliff Lee a white guy. How could they?!

 

I was trying to figure out how Lee was holding up the laundry basket.

 

And the winner is...

 

No argument Mystery Meat II.

 

Looks to me like an endorsement of gay marriage. Totally unnecessary for the sports page.

 

That guy doesn't have to be black. Could be Carribean. Or Dominican. Really no telling.

So who's going to tell Mayberry or Rollins that one of them isn't black?

 

Still wrong Ijag. It's a person of color, which keeps stereotypes going.