You do NOT consider this racist?!
“Obama fingers” on sale in Germany
The sales manager obviously didn’t get what’s wrong with this:
The idea, she claimed, was to get in on the Obama-mania which is continuing to grip Germany. The word “fingers” in the name refers to the fact that it is a finger food. “It’s like hotdogs,” Witting said. “No one would ever think they are actually from dogs.”
Full article here.
[...] on to release a book and a movie. It is quite telling of German sensitivity to racism (also see here), that, supported by predominantly positive media coverage, this concept is a box office hit. [...]
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