Sometimes you can't win
Even do-gooders can get it wrong
"Sweden's culture minister today faced furious calls to resign after she was pictured cutting a 'racist' black cake designed like a native African woman.
Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth had appeared at the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm when she was invited to cut the cake which was designed like a naked African woman.
The Swedish minister cut pieces from the black cake, which had blood-red sponge and was designed to highlight the issue of female genital mutilation.
Despite the intentions of the bizarre cake, however, critics described it as a 'racist spectacle', and demanded Ms Liljeroth resigned for participating in the 'tasteless' event.
The Association for African Swedes said the cake was a crude racist caricature which 'makes a mockery of racism'.
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6 comments:
African Swedes?
Her move adds new meaning to the word, DUMB!
Darn that thing looks totaly unappitising
Silly me, I thought that was a picture of Michelle at the dentist.
Racist? Since most of the women being mutilated are black it makes sense to use a black figure to represent them.
The symbolism is also appropriate. As women in backwards countries are sliced, so also is the cake.
It would be far more appropriate for those whining about the cake to aim their outrage at what is being done to young girls.
Note: if those societies are really worried about women enjoying sex, perhaps the men could do without an inch or two of their appendage. Then they wouldn't have to worry about men getting much enjoyment out of the act either.
Its ROBERT MUGABE or LOUIS FARAKHAN
I'm guessing that if they wanted to protest lynchings, they would have had cupcakes, shaped like AA men, hanging in ficus trees around the room?
Bad taste.
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