Are European liberals guilty of Racism?

by Tim Daniels, California

Now get this, I found these pictures of the Obama float from France's "King of the Blue Planet" carnival parade over at the hard left-liberal site Democratic Underground Hardly flattering right? Well, the folks at the highly popular and respected DU didn't even blink an eye.

A giant figure of U.S. President Barack Obama is seen during preparations for a carnival parade in Nice, southeastern France, February 3, 2010. The 126th Nice Carnival starts on February 12 until February 28 and will celebrate the theme "King of the Blue Planet".

Similar to 19th Century depictions of African Americans?

Upon further inspection, I must surmise that the King of the Blue Planet, aka Barack Obama is a liberal adventure in Euro-racism. I mean, after all, look at the toothy grin, the ears.

Remember the popular character of Sambo from the early 19th Century portrayed in minstrels, early films and cartoons?

Political Correctness applies only to Some and not to Others

Note - In February of last year, in Orange County, California, a Republican city councilman was forced to resign because he sent out an email to some friends in city government that included a comparably mild cartoon of watermelons on the White House lawn. And immediately after the 2008 Presdential election a bakery shop owner was castigated by CNN and other liberal media outlets for baking Obama cookies, that portrayed the President-elect as having bigger than normal lips. The baker vehemently denied he was trying to make fun of him.

And to this day, the most popular restaurant (Denny's like) chain in all of Mexico, that caters to a largely American Latino clientele at Mexican border towns like Tijijuana and Mexicali, is named "Sambo's."

Though, no cries of "racism" from La Raza.

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