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Polish Foreign Minister: â€œObamaâ€™s grandfather ate our missionary in Africaâ€

20 November 2008 12:19 (UTC +04:00)

Londonâ€“APA. Polandâ€™s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has allegedly passed racist jibes on US President-elect Barack Obama, saying that his grandfather was a cannibal, and ate a Polish missionary, APA reports. According to the British Daily Mail one of the oppositionists quoted the foreign minister as saying: "Have you heard that Obama may have a Polish connection? His grandfather ate a Polish missionaryâ€.
A spokesman for the Polish Foreign Office conceded that Mr. Sikorski had made the controversial comment, but denied that the foreign minister had intended to insult Mr Obama, whose father was Kenyan.
"Mr. Sikorski did not tell a racist joke," said Piotr Paszkowski, the spokesman. "He was only giving an example of the unpalatable and racist â€œjokesâ€ that surround President Elect Obama."
Recently Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi joked about Obamaâ€™s â€œwell sunburnâ€ hinting to his black skin.