Who reminds not yet at the stupid comparisons between George W. Bush and all types of primates, circulating especially at the beginning of his first term. This type of hate propaganda in the eight years of his presidency differ widely spread, but since the show was Barack Obama on the political scene, despite the inherent anachronism, never quite out of fashion. turned
With the nomination and the presidency, the Obama's 180 degrees, as demonstrated not least, the enthusiasms of his last visit to Germany.
The wonderful dialectic of the monkey comparison, the hatred of Bush and the German love for Obama has now shown the Dresden Zoo, as Among other things, the report Tagesspiegel or the English magazine "The Local" .
"The Dresden Zoo had a newborn Mandrill the name given Obama," The organization of Black People in Germany (ISD) takes exception it and called for the renaming of the monkey. Such naming is racist. "It's a disaster," the ISD-chairman Tahir Della said on Friday the English-German website "The Local". "Black people are always comparing with the animal kingdom and the primitive face. "
" The choice should express something positive, "said the Dresdner keeper Manuel Collmar. The name was to honor the American president and during his visit to Dresden. Neither she nor her colleagues had been clear that monkeys in the story had been repeatedly used as caricatures and ethnic stereotypes for black people. "
