Is this ironic? Is it racist?

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There are two Chael Sonnens. One is the Division 1 all-American wrestler and mixed martial arts journeyman who established a solid if unspectacular career in the middle years of the UFC. The other Chael Sonnen is the self-proclaimed “gangster from West Linn, Oregon,” a bombastic and periodically offensive middleweight who made his own belt and generally presents himself as a heel. One of these Chael Sonnens is fake, kind of. He’s the one who went on SportsCenter and asked to touch a black woman’s hair. That’s racist, but in the context of Sonnen’s cultivated image, is it ironic? Does that make it okay?

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