Posted on 07/31/2015 12:03:27 PM PDT by bob_denard
Video emerges of Red Bull Flugtag competition showing men apparently in blackface makeup, one dressed as US president, chasing banana off a ramp
The recent scrutiny of racism in World Cup host Russia has expanded to include the world’s largest energy drink brand, after a video from a Red Bull event in Moscow showed a Barack Obama impersonator chasing a banana.
The controversy emerged over a highlights video from last week’s Red Bull Flugtag competition, in which participants send whimsical “flying” machines crashing off a ramp into water.
In the video, at least four shirtless men who appeared to be in blackface makeup and one dressed as the US president chased another dressed as a banana off the Flugtag ramp.
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No it isn’t. The stupid brainwashed Western Nations are the only people on the planet that care about such nonsense. So no, debate isn’t “RAGING” anywhere.
Don’t be silly, if it was Obama he’d have been in
Air Farce One.
We need a pic of the purple minions yelling “BANANA!!”
OMG!!! Everything On Planet earth IS Racist Now!!
They should have labeled the banana “Legacy” then it would be OK.
LOL
If this doesn’t create an itchy trigger finger on the football, I don’t know what will. /S
Russia has more freedom than Amerika—can’t believe I’m saying it.
Gonna buy some Red Bull. Don’t drink the stuff but you know.....
Ah, that explains the banana-flavored Twinkies having those guys all over the box. Bought some several weeks ago; didn’t know what the tie-in was.
While the media may need the fainting couch over this, I don’t think the rest of the world gets as bent out of shape about this stuff as Western Liberals do.
Why is this racist?
This gets liberals more “outraged” than black on black crime, genocide in Africa, and any atrocities committed by ISIS.
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