Obama t-shirt sparks protest

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From the AP:

A Barack Obama T-shirt has sparked a protest in Georgia.
The shirt being sold at a bar in Marietta shows a cartoon chimp, Curious George, peeling a banana with the words “Obama in ‘08″ printed beneath.
About a dozen people gathered outside the bar yesterday to protest. The Southeast regional director of the Anti-Defamation League says the shirt is “an outrageous slur” against Obama and all African-Americans.
Mike Norman, who owns Mulligan’s Food and Spirits says the T-shirt is not meant to be racist. He says he thinks it’s funny because he says Obama and Curious George, quote, “look so much alike.”

May 14th, 2008

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  1. Ned said,

    -YAWNS- Just more kneejerk cries of racism. Folks need to get over themselves some. Geez.

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