Last Updated, Tuesday, 10:34 a.m. | One of Belgium’s leading newspapers, De Morgen,
apologized on Monday to readers offended by a satirical feature
published two days earlier that used racist images of President Obama to
mock his strained relationship with the Russian president, Vladimir
Putin.
The editors of the left-leaning Flemish daily
explained that the premise of their “admittedly tasteless joke” was
that the Russian president had been asked to submit an article about Mr.
Obama but sent instead two racist caricatures
— one photograph captioned to suggest that the first African-American
president of the United States was a drug dealer, and a second that was
digitally altered to give the president and Michelle Obama the features
of apes.
Related link to suggest that this initial editorial decision was not atypical from what is going on European "High Society" http://tomficklin.blogspot.com/2014/03/afrophobia-in-european-union-transafrica.html
explained that the premise of their “admittedly tasteless joke” was
that the Russian president had been asked to submit an article about Mr.
Obama but sent instead two racist caricatures
— one photograph captioned to suggest that the first African-American
president of the United States was a drug dealer, and a second that was
digitally altered to give the president and Michelle Obama the features
of apes.
Related link to suggest that this initial editorial decision was not atypical from what is going on European "High Society" http://tomficklin.blogspot.com/2014/03/afrophobia-in-european-union-transafrica.html
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