Well that didn’t take long. November 10, 2008
Europe welcomed the black and white half’s of Barack Obama as the new President of the United States. But over the past week many of the European lawmakers and journalist have made off hand comments about his race. A Austrian TV journalist even said “on camera” that he “Wouldn’t want the Western world to be directed by a black man”.
A Polish lawmaker even stood up in front of Parliament and made the following statement about the election resutls : “this is the end of the white man’s civilization.”
the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi made the following statement about Obama: “young, handsome and even suntanned”. He defended his comment that this is a compliment. As you might imagine the news of Obama didn’t go over well in Germany I will just leave that to your imagination. Personally I find this all offensive and I again want to restate it’s not his skin color that people should fear it’s his policies. I really hope that I am wrong about him and that 1/2 of the things he wants to accomplish never happen.
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