Racist, IDK, just pandering to your audience. Some car adds in Japan show "American" scenery and people. Is it racist? No. It's been explained to me something like Japaneses people see America(ns) as either free or solid (solidarity). Whatever it is, it's a good image to portray a car in that light there. You make an add however you need to make it to sell your product.
How they did it in this case is pretty funny. That's a bad Photoshop.
I'm seeing the black guy in both pictures.
Wolfram Alpha on the other hand, is racist.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=dumb