US embassy in Berlin got illuminated last night
http://imgur.com/Shdb8wD
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...not cool. 
"Why in heavens name would anyone think that is racist?"
I searched for "Obama in da house".
The result: a very friendly, almost fawning article about a presidential visit to a university campus in an Austrian paper:
Der amerikanische Präsident schafft es immer noch, die Massen zu begeistern. Bei einem Auftritt in Colorado lässt er wieder die Funken sprühen.
Barack Obama mag in Umfragen an Beliebtheit verloren haben. Wenn er auf einen Uni-Campus kommt, ist er aber immer noch ein Superstar. Seit halb acht in der Früh stehen Aisha, Marissa und Sarah vor den Toren des Basketballstadions der University of Colorado in Boulder, um den Präsidenten am Abend reden zu hören.
„Ich finde, er macht sich sehr gut“, sagt Aisha. So wie ihre Freundinnen trägt die Studentin ein T-Shirt mit einem Obama-Foto. „Er kann ja nicht alles alleine reparieren“, sagt Marissa während Sarah hinzufügt: „Die Gesundheitsreform war jedenfalls eine große Sache.“
http://www.datum.at/artikel/obama-in-da-house/
Rough translation:
The American president still manages to inspire the masses. At his gig in Colorado, his charm is sparkling.
Barack Obama may have lost in popularity polls. But when he appears at a university campus, he is still a superstar. Since half past seven in the morning Aisha, Marissa and Sarah are at the gates of the basketball stadium at the University of Colorado in Boulder to hear the President talk in the evening.
"I think he is doing very well," says Aisha. Like her friends she is wearing a student T-shirt with an Obama photo. "He can't fix everything," says Marissa while Sarah adds: "The health care reform was certainly a big deal."
Pun...well, not really intended, but...
I see it is the same as someone saying "Well, why is calling a gay person a "queer" bad, when they have a group called "Queer Nation?!" or saying "Heeb isn't really an anti-Semitic slur because there is a magazine by the same name!" or, more on point, "Why is it "racist" to portray Obama as a chimp? Many artists did the same with Bush and that wasn't considered "racist!""
Context matters. It seems to be lost on some.
Good post. So much more succinct than mine. 
that this guy
cannot reign in these types, apparently
(sorry, I just noticed the shades - stereotyping? racism?)
It's an arrogant little rant. Do I REALLY believe these guys would have pictured Bush with a baseball cap and a "black" (and rather mainstream, nowadays) phrase? Yes, I REALLY believe they would. And although I don't know them personally, I'm positive that I know them much better than Mr. Aegis does.
This is what Wikipedia says, in a surprisingly well-written article on the subject:
This first paragraph is obviously not applicable, neither prejudice nor discrimination towards biological difference are even remotely hinted at in the lightshow display.
This wider definition by "some" is perhaps what you are basing your perceptions on. But the display does not imply that Obama uses hip-hop phrases (however mainstreamed these days). The display also doesn't imply Obama wears baseball caps backwards (like deejays or Holden in "Catcher in the Rye"
. It doesn't imply any stereotypical behavior at all. It only implies that sneaky NSA agents are snooping in da house, from the one the projection is pointing at, whose boss happens to be a relatively cool guy, and we still don't like it one bit.
As regards the references to chicken and so forth - it took me a very long time of reading American literature and watching TV series to even learn that they are somehow perceived as denigrating or pejorative, kind of like Germans are stereotypically portrayed as beer drinking boors who are always drunk. Well, feel free to imagine me sitting in front of my screen in lederhosen, and, actually, I have two pounds of sauerkraut in my fridge right now, it's true!
C'mon. You know that's not going to happen. You'll just change names again, like you did when you were:
court jester
Gravel Democrat
green for victory (though, to be fair, you got banned with that one)
solarhydrocan
If you've taken the trouble to register at DU 5 times, you're not going to "move on to more sophisticated debate forums"
To the jurors, I'll take the hide, if you think this is bullshit. But I assure you it isn't, the poster has been cut and pasting their own posts from their previous accounts with every new name.
Sid
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Har Har Har....so funny.....
And as a 'criticism' of PBO, it's definitely not affection or just about policy. Germans are not 'color blind,' nor is this statement. Just some harmless humor, laughing it up here? As Rush says, 'You liberals can't take a joke.'
(UNO City), and previously at the US Embassy in Berlin (commissioned by Kim Dotcom):
What?! No traditional Black History menu items of watermelon and fried chicken! Dat'd be d'bomb!
I would ask if I need , but clearly I do as some don't see that shit as racist twaddle! Ooo...Obama is black, hip-hop artists are black, therefore, it is OK! If you can't see the racism in that "art," ask yourself, if it was Bush, do you HONESTLY think they would have portrayed him with a backwards ball cap (despite pictures of him wearing caps that way) and "black slang"? Just because the same racial stereotypes aren't the same worldwide doesn't mean they aren't magically inoffensive!
And makes the anti-NSA protesters look like such backwards goobers, one has to wonder if the NSA themselves did it.
Talk about smacking down your own movement.
