Chris and race

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"I am not, nor would ever, making fun of any black people living, dead or fiction."

Race is a thing that Chris has shown a variety of feelings for; unfortunately, they are not always in a positive light.

It is believed by some that Chris's racist tendencies can be traced at least partially to his Southern U.S. heritage. However, certain other factors seem to imply that the rest of his worldview on race comes from stereotypes depicted by popular culture. In some cases, however, Chris seems to be completely unfamiliar with even the stereotypes.

His racism probably comes from several sources: his parental upbringing, television, naïveté, and complete ignorance of everything that isn't him.

Blacks

His rationale for not being willing to date black women is that he's "Old Fashioned".

Main article: Niggos

Chris demonstrates many instances of intolerance and racism, both intentional and unintentional, towards black people in particular, hence his use of the words "nigger" and "niggos".

Note how most of the Jerkops in the comic are black.

Asians

Chris standing awkwardly next to some Asians

In the comics, Chris portrays Punchy Sonichu as a kung fu master with slanty eyes, raised in a dojo. When a fan criticized this stereotyping, Chris claimed that Punchy was "NOT of Asian origin". Outside of the comic, Chris also misattributes the origin of kung fu to Japan, when in actuality it comes from China. He does a racist impression of a Chinese person, and claims Japanese and Chinese people sound the same. In a leaked series of e-mails, it is shown that Chris simply does not seem to know that China and Japan are not the same, as he calls the Japanese account Chinese, failing to realize that they are separate countries with different languages, writing systems and currencies.

In his real-life dealings, Chris seems to have a positive or at least a neutral view toward Asians. He has stated that he would not exclude Asian women from his Love Quest, and at one point believed Emily to be part-Asian. However, he also said that meeting her was like having a Pretty Girl Sailor Moon character leap out of his television; a real Asian woman probably wouldn't be pleased to be imagined as animu wank fodder. It is also possible that Chris's view of "white" is simply "a person who isn't black".

Chris also mentioned receiving a graduation gift from Reverend Shin C. Kang (sp?) of Korean Hope Presbyterian Church of Richmond in the church audio.

"Turdijerk" from "Off-Target" has a vaguely South Asian appearance and the name may also be based on a stereotype of an Indian accent.

Ching Chong

In the Captain's Log, Stardate April 28th, 2009, Chris presents us sincere apologies for having scared a small Chinese girl that Ivy tutored in art. The child, known only as Ching Chong (程鍾 Chéng Zhong), is now traumatized due to her witnessing a video of Chris drinking his own "navy" while innocently browsing Encyclopedia Dramatica. Chris never made a follow-up on the girl and never asked why her name was a known racial slur towards ethnic Asian communities. Chris also never questioned how a young child could make it all the way to the Christian Weston Chandler pages on Encyclopedia Dramatica without encountering something else as scarring, if not more so along the way. In the Wedding Comic, Ching Chong is seen as a flower girl.

Native Americans

Main article: Cherokian Clan

This has something to do with Native Americans. No, really.

As stated in the main article, despite claiming to have at least one Cherokee ancestor, Chris is completely ignorant of Native American culture. However, unlike other minorities, Chris's opinions and representation of Native Americans are a misguided expression of "pride" for his "heritage".

In Sonichu #2: Episode 7, Chris tries to tie in his "Cherokian" heritage with Sonichu lore. He depicts Cherokee characters in his work as white-skinned and blue-eyed, and wearing Ancient Roman-style armor (Joseph Smith would be proud). The Wasabi Clan unsurprisingly also bear no resemblance to Native Americans.

Chris has also embodied his ignorance of Native American culture in a physical form. For a brief time, Chris blurred his gender roles and began to collect and customize "My Little Pony" dolls. One of the dolls he crafted was the infamous "Cheroki-Chan", a Native American pony. While there is nothing overtly racist about this abomination, it is probably not how Native Americans want to be represented. In the end Cheroki-Chan is just another Mary Sue for Chris, and pales in comparison to Chris's most infamous portrayal of Native Americans.

In a shocking display of ignorance, Chris attempted to emulate what he perceives as "Native American culture" in a War Paint Video. In this video Chris wears water-washable paint (and a "muscle bra") and wields a plastic gun in an attempt to frighten trolls into submission. True Cherokee wore vests most of the time, and there is little evidence to suggest they owned muscle bras. They also notably did not go to war with toy guns, but instead with bows and arrows, which Chris lacks the strength to use.

In a Facebook post, Chris announced that the prostitute whom he hired to be his virgin-taker was part Cherokee, a fact from which he seemed to derive a disproportional amount of pleasure despite the vague implications of incest. It is almost certain that the prostitute mentioned this because Chris did first, believing she would be interested.

Chris and stereotypes

Chris's views of cultures besides Southern white Christians can also be traced to the television he watches. The typical Adult Swim cartoon includes gratuitous use of stereotype-based humor. Chris takes The Boondocks' satire of black stereotypes at face value. He also portrays nearly every person of African descent that appears in Sonichu with bald heads and either round, bulging eyes or glasses that resemble such. Finally, he does an impression of the stereotypical black accent, which he apparently confuses with the Jamaican accent, in Mumble 4.

His exposure to anime fuels his misguided views on East Asians. Asians, in his views, excel at random-access humor and martial arts.

Chris, despite claiming Cherokee ancestry, doesn't seem to know what a Native American even looks like, as he portrays the Ancient leader of the Cherokee Clan as an overtly European person wearing Greco-Roman garb. He also tramples all over their actual rituals and culture simply to implement the Anchuent Prophecy into his comic. Chris most likely has no idea what kind of rituals took place in Native American culture. If he did, he would know that some tribes slit their cocks to please their gods.

Not a racist?

Chris being a wiggo.

“	And I am NOT racist, and I like Jews.	”
Chris, in response to a rejected mailbag email

“	Blacks...are good people too.	”
Chris, in the disclaimer for his Mr. Popo video

Chris does not want to be considered a racist. He claims to respect blacks as equals, saying that in CWCville "they can even vote", but at best he merely tolerates their existence so long as they stay away from him. Or if they can help him get his inane and idiotic video game made. Also of note, every single black person in Sonichu is depicted as a villain, a criminal or otherwise undesirable. However, he does genuinely like two black people: Kenan & Kel.

He did mention more than once that the reason he doesn't want black girls (but any other race is okay) is because he thinks God told him that his future daughter Crystal must be white, too. In an IRC, Chris said he has no problem with dating an Asian. Later, in Mailbag 35, he wrote he would date "Asian, Native or Hispanic women, as well as women of all other countries" (except the ones being black).

Realistically, Chris's racism doesn't stem from white supremacy, or anything cerebral - it's simply a phobia of people and cultures he doesn't understand. Like most things in his life, Chris has no real knowledge and bases everything off what he's seen on TV, so Chris's perception of minorities is only what the TV shows him, since encountering them in real life is something that rarely occurs.

Improved race relations?

“	Who my nigga? Who my nigga, dog?	„
—Lars

“	I'm yo nigga.	„
—Chris, code-switching in solidarity with the niggas

Chris does not judge a woman by the color of her skin but by the size of her breasts.

An image leaked on 26 September 2009 showing Chris having sex with three young ladies, including an African American woman. In the Captain's Log of 10 October 2009, Chris clarified that the woman with whom he's performing sexual intercourse is "Half And Half" (mixed ancestry). This proves to us that, even if he's ready to touch the genitals of a black woman, he is unable to imagine the sexual intercourse with someone not sharing white ancestry. In fact, there's evidence that shared ancestry may be a turn-on for Chris.

It seems that the futility of his Love Quest has lead Chris to lower his ridiculously high standards even further, as he did with fat chicks (which he dropped for Sarah Jackson), and red heads (as he did with Ivy).

Nope, no improved race relations

"Fitty years ago you'da been hung from a damn dirty tree!"

If anyone had any misconceptions that Chris had evolved into some sort of post-racial autistic, they should be aware that he ended Sonichu Day by calling Tito a "nigger" in "Chris Drops the N-Bomb" and in the Surfshack Tito E-mails, making him an official racist. (The repercussions of this event included Jack Thaddeus removing his ads from CWCipedia and Mao taking over the site for a short time, leading to a massive amount of vandalism.) He later performed a song in blackface for his sweetheart Jackie.

In the new pages of Sonichu 11 which were uploaded in 2015 Blake is mistaken as black, being wished a "Happy Kwanza,brother" from an African American, and goes on an angry rant about how his skin in not "sunburn color", he is black because of a mutation. Keep in mind that 2015 is a year in which Chris became more openly "supportive" towards the LGBT community (but not necessarily supportive to race minorities). Given this, it is not unreasonable to assume that Chris is still racist towards black people.

In Sonichu 12, Heather once again makes an appearance, switching from English to Spanish randomly throughout conversations- saying 'tres', but then saying 'two' in the exact same sentence. Her sentences also make absolutely no sense, compared to Chris's previous writing. In one sentence, she says "Russel y Cynthia, me le amo." 'Me le amo' seems to translate to either 'I love him', or 'I love you', later saying "they love their mama con sus corizones". Not only does Chirs misspell 'corazones', that sentence seems to translate to "they love their mom with your hearts".

Altogether, her sentence appears to be talking about how his offspring got away from her at the festival and the children love the colors. She mentions how Chris is there with his family and how she loves the kids, but they love their 'mother' (Chris) dearly, and how she does her best for the kids, ending with a poor translation of "its okay, I love them".

Whether this poor speech was intentional or Chris thought it would be interesting to have a 'bilingual' character isn't known.

Minority characters in Sonichu

• Kevin (Jewish, good but immature)
• Ancient leader of the Cherokee Clan (Paleface Native American, lawful good)
• Wasabi Rival (Caucasian Native American, evil)
• Queen of the Cherokian Clan - (white-washedNative American, good, probably the whitest of all Native American characters in the comics as she's not only blue eyed but also blonde)
• B-Manajerk (black, evil)
• Barack Obama (half black)
• Blake (black, evil turned good)
• CADD Chef (black, evil)
• Florance Fisher (black, good)
• Jerkhief (black, lawful evil)
  • Occasionally other Jerkops are shown to be black as well. No other minorities are apparent.
• Punchy (East Asian, good)
• Silvana (black, evil [said to turn good])
• Turdijerk (Indian?, drawn with tan skin, evil)
• Constable Louis Perez (black, TRUE and HONEST police officers)
• Inos (black, tobacky smoker)
• Heather Iglesias (Hispanic, lesbian, good, never seen debuts in Sonichu 12)
• Bill Schwartz (possibly Jewish, worked for Giovanni but later on changed sides)
• Ching Chong (Asian, appeared in the Wedding Comic as a flower girl)
• PHI Spring Break reporter (Black, appears in Sonichu #8) - despite only appearing in one panel, Chris manages to make her into a stereotype, addressing the audience as "Sistas and brothas."

In the Mailbag, when Chris is confronted about the lack of minorities in his comic he claims that all of his Electric Hedgehog Pokémon are considered "minorities" in CWCville, implying that he completely missed the point of the question. Despite being minorities, the Electric Hedgehog Pokémon group never experiences discrimination nor prejudices in the comic,That's saved for another minority in CWCville. Chris would probably not tolerate human-versions of these characters being anything but white.