A Whole Foods supermarket in New York has removed a
sign that used a drawing of President Barack Obama to advertise a sale
on chicken after complaints that the ad was offensive.
The sign outside the supermarket on Manhattan’s Upper
West Side, featuring an apparent caricature of Obama advertising an
upcoming sale on whole organic chickens, outraged neighbor Woody
Henderson.
“There are certain things that have been used to put down black people — watermelon, fried chicken,” he said.
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