Whether or not this ice cream is racist (sorry just typing that sentence cracks me up) in some subtle shade of the word, I don't think it could be intended to be racially derogatory. Perhaps it is naively patronising, like blackie toothpaste, but if the people marketing this stuff actually had a problem with black people, surely they wouldn't use imagery associated with black people to shift it.
Lobby groups from an almost entirely white country protesting against the usage of imagery associated with black culture to market a product from that country, on the other hand? Now that sounds like racism to me.
Quite clearly this is not a real anti-racist group. There are two realistic possibilities I can see here:
1) They are a secret society of rogue comedians, posing as a group of political activists with the sole aim of bringing the expression "racist ice cream" into the common parlance.
2) They are a group of renegade aesthetes who, having consulted a lawyer, have discovered that there is no law against putting liquorice on ice cream and have decided to have this muck taken off the shelves by the only means available to them.
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