POLL: Skids, Mudflap. Racist?

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

But what's been done is done. I wonder what writers can do to salvage the twins in the next movie. What would you do? Visually I suppose there isn't much - their look has already been established. I would try to tone down or remove all the negative black stereotypes and try to push them toward more positive ones.

Transformers 3: Robot House - Skids and Mudflap go to College.
Oh, wait, positive stereotypes...