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As a single image I don't think it's problematic. Athletes are often expected to portray a hypermasculine image, and looking like you want to bite off the face of whomever is viewing a photo of you is one way of doing that. The issue would arise if this portrayal were limited primarily to black athletes (or blathletes, as I like to call them), or if it was the only way in which black athletes are generally portrayed (akin to the tendency for black female fashion models to be portrayed in an animalistic sense).
But no, I sure as fuck don't look at that and go "DATS RACIST". And the similarities it bears to the WWII poster are likely entirely circumstantial.
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