A pro-Kremlin TV station over the weekend aired a racist segment in which an actor in blackface portrayed former U.S. president Barack Obama.
A pro-Kremlin TV station over the weekend aired a racist segment in which an actor in blackface portrayed former U.S. president Barack Obama.
The roughly 90-second skit, which appeared on Russian channel NTV’s satirical show “Mezhdunarodnaya Pilorama” — or “International Sawmill,” a pun on a Soviet-era program — features a conversation between the actor posing as Obama and the show’s host, Tigran Keosayan.
“We now go live to the dark side of America’s history, Barack Obama,” Keosayan says. On the split screen, the actor appears amid stacks of books, wearing blackface with a red bandanna tied around her head and chains hanging from her neck.
“Black lives matter!” she chants. The host interjects: “Can you please stop shouting? We don’t have racism. Maximum you could be taken for a gypsy.”
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