Baby monkey Obama, now Okeke.
An advocacy group for Black Germans has forced the Dresden Zoo to rename a baby primate dubbed “Obama” in honor of American’s first African-American president.
“It’s a catastrophe,” director of the Initiative for Black Germans (ISD) Tahir Della said. “Black people continue to be confronted by associations with the animal kingdom and primitivity.”
Zoo officials insist their naming the baby mandrill, a primate closely related to the baboon, was not racial in any manner. “This year they all begin with ‘O,’ and one of the zookeepers chose ‘Obama’ – it was meant to be positive and an honour in light of his visit to Dresden in June,” said Manuela Collmar, zookeeper at the zoo’s “Afrika Haus.”
“The possible associations of this name choice were not considered, and the racist charicterisation – particularly with the background that the US president recently visited Dresden – was far off,” wrote zoo director Karl-Heinz Ukena in an e-mail response to questions.
Ukena added that the zoo had meant to express its “esteem” for Obama and added her apology.
The baby monkey has been renamed ‘Okeke,’ which means ‘he who was born on market day.
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In Mein Kampf, the Fuhrer said that a war on two fronts is unwinnable. The personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew. Understanding that Dresden was firebombed during the war, we Germans have the right to grab our future by the hand and lead us out of this dreck that the politically correct Talmudists have lead us in to.
It was insulting to the monkey.
how the hell do you get “he who was born on market day” from a 5 letter word ?!
after closer inspection of the baby monkeys picture, i would say its the mandril who should complain about being called obama. the monkey is whiter and has smallers ears
I gotta agree with patagonianproud…that monkey definetly has a case for slander…
But I doubt that the monkey ever uttered, “let go of my ears, I know what I’m doing”,, while on his knees in front of Soros.,
Wolfgang/Ally oop , do you have to make such stupid comments about us all the time, you are one of us. Just like you and I, not all Jews are politically correct leftist assholes. Your words only help those antisemites justify their hatred towards me and my family. Thanks asshole. BEN ZONA!!!!
I am so sick of people using the “race card” as an excuse to act like a nazi. People need to grow thick skins and stop acting like little wimps when it comes criticism.
You can take the Obama out of the monkey, but…
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But it was OK for Liberals, especially Liberal cartoonists, to portray G.W. Bush as a monkey for eight years.
They can’t take criticism of their own….they have thin skin.
Typical duplicitous, Liberal hypocrites!
http://media.photobucket.com/image/bush%20monkey%20cartoons/cin2008_album/bush_monkey3.jpg
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