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Turkish TV Dons Blackface To Address Obama
Barack Obama’s early presidency has been covered from a variety of angles in different parts of the world. Here’s how a Turkish television news host approached a segment in which he addresses Obama directly (imploring him not to believe “propaganda” concerning the Armenian genocide and to help crush the Kurdish militant group PKK). The host explains the blackface with a bizarre racist Turkish proverb about how “he who requests something has dark skin, yet he who denies the request has even darker skin.”
