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A Belgian newspaper apologised Monday following outcry over
an image showing US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama with
their faces photoshopped to look like apes. The image was printed alongside
another that implies President Obama sells marijuana.
The images appeared in Flemish newspaper De Morgen's Saturday
edition, in a satire section called "The Obama Herald". The paper
joked that Russian President Vladimir Putin sent in the photos. The controversy
comes ahead of an official visit by President Obama to Belgium. He is scheduled
to arrive in Brussels Today.
The apology from De Morgen's editors came in an article
entitled, "Is De Morgen Racist?". They called the image a
"tasteless joke", explaining, "We wrongly assumed that racism is
no longer accepted, and that in this way it could be the subject of a
joke".
The international outcry began on Saturday after Nigerian
writer Chika Unigwe, who lives in Belgium, tweeted the images.
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