by Gwynn Guilford

Responding to Wednesday's Google home page that included the above image, Rabbi Yair Hoffman speaks out:

Either a young Google programmer decided to see if he could get away with showing an African American athlete chase after a watermelon themed track, or a terribly unlikely random coincidence occurred.

For those unfamiliar, Hoffman explains watermelon-based racism's long tradition. A commenter on the site takes Hoffman to task:

Are you serious?