Offensive opinions have also originated from the other end of the political spectrum. Die Tageszeitung, a Berlin newspaper that supports socialist and leftist causes, predicted Obama’s election in June when it published a large front-page photo of the White House under the headline, „Uncle Barack’s Cabin.“
The reference was to „Uncle Tom’s Cabin,“ an anti-slavery book written by 19th-century author Harriet Beecher Stowe. But editors of the paper insisted they did not mean to imply that Obama would be an Uncle Tom, or a submissive slave. Rainer Metzger, a deputy editor, said the headline was satirical.
„I‘m sure 99 percent of our readers would understand it correctly,“ he told the German magazine Der Spiegel. „As for the rest, well, tough luck. You can‘t please everybody.“
Yonis Ayeh, a board member with the Initiative of Black People in Germany, a group that criticized the Die Tageszeitung article when it was published, said racial prejudices are common, if not always blatantly expressed.
Die Washington Post fasst in einem Artikel rassistische Reaktionen europäischer Medien im Bezug auf den Ausgang der US-Präsidentschaftswahl zusammen.
(via BlackPrint)
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