Cobb bar protested as racist for Obama T-shirts
May 13, 2008 · Print This Article
CHRISTIAN BOONE, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Marietta tavern owner Mike Norman says the T-shirts he’s peddling, featuring cartoon chimp Curious George peeling a banana, with “Obama in ‘08″ scrolled underneath, are “cute.” But to a coalition of critics, the shirts are an insulting exploitation of racial stereotypes from generations past.
“It’s time to put an end to this,” said Rich Pellegrino, a Mableton resident and director of the Cobb-Cherokee Immigrant Alliance. It was among the organizations planning to gather outside Mulligan’s Bar and Grill Tuesday afternoon to protest the “racist and highly offensive” shirts.
Apparently, black skin is thin skin.
With all due respect to the readers, and NO RESPECT TO THE T-SHIRT DESIGNER: It could be said that the cartoon character most closely resembles - ta-dum - “Yo mxmma”!