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26th March 2014
03:53pm GMT

so photo of the Obama's as chimps in De Morgen of today is the paper's attempt at satire. I forgot to laugh #racist pic.twitter.com/jc7cW7cbgD
— chika unigwe (@chikaunigwe) March 22, 2014
Another image of Obama was also printed, with the words: “First black president of the USA starts selling weed.”
The newspaper apologized this week for what it called a “tasteless joke” while admitting that their editors overlooked the racist undertones that the image carried, according to Flandersnews.
"When you consider the fragment apart from its context, which is a properly worked out satirical section, then you don't see the joke but just a picture evoking sheer racism," the newspaper wrote in its statement.
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