Belgian newspaper blasted for depicting Obamas as apes..

[whathehell]

Stay classy, Belgium.


http://thegrio.com/2014/03/24/belgian-newspaper-blasted-for-portraying-the-obamas-as-apes/

[PoliticAverse]

1. And then someone in Belgium did this...

http://news.yahoo.com/belgium-gives-u-life-sized-cookie-obama-holding-202600285.html

[el_bryanto]

2. There are a lot of good things about Belgium too -

They do have a some problems with racist imagery in general though.

Bryant

[mercuryblues]

3. what does

this even mean?

“We wrongly assumed that racism is no longer accepted, and that in this way it could be the subject of a joke.”

[Paladin]

4. A joke, given Belgium's conduct in the Congo? Not bloody likely. (nt)

[whathehell]

5. It's a pathetic attempt to backpeddle..

by pretending that racism is so last century they could "joke" about it. -- Fail.

[jwirr]

6. There is at least one backwards country in Europe. That is our president they are talking about.

[whathehell]

7. I honestly do not know what you are talking about..

Please explain.

[jwirr]

8. So it is ok for a newspaper to call our president and ape? And don't tell me that the country does

not allow this because that paper would be out of business if they did not have approval. Too bad that the Hague is located there because this is not what the Hague is all about. Yes, there was opposition and that is good but that it even happened is a disgrace.

[whathehell]

9. Um, no, I don't, and you appear to be directing your post to the wrong person -- I posted the OP

and registered my disgust about the incident.

[jwirr]

10. I was not talking to you. Merely agreeing with you.

[whathehell]

11. Oh, okay.

Could've fooled me.