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Cartoonist Reacts to Obama Being Called ‘Little Black Man’ by Honduran Official
By Rob Tornoe | July 8th, 2009 | PERMALINK
Here is a cartoon by Jeremy Nell, one of our cartoonists who is based in South Africa (View more of Jeremy’s cartoons here).
According to the Cape Argus, Ortez Colindres, foreign minister to Roberto Micheletti, who took over after Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a coup on June 28, used the term “negrito”, or “little black man” to describe President Barack Obama last week.
He also described Obama as “this little black man who has no idea where Tegucigalpa is”.
“It’s simply satirizing what is considered racist, coupled with America’s (and by extension, Obama’s) foreign relations (or perception thereof),” Jeremy Nell said of his cartoon.
“As the official and personal representative of the president of the United States of America, I convey my deep outrage about the unfortunate, disrespectful and racially insensitive comments by Mr. Colindres about President Barack Obama,” said Hugo Llorens, the United States’ Ambassador to Honduras.
The Obama administration has expressed its firm backing for ousted-leader Manuel Zelaya, who is planning to return to Honduras as soon as this weekend.
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Comment from Derryck S Griffith
Time July 8, 2009 at 11:38 am
ATTENTION:
The Little Black Man (President Barack Obama), is the most powerful man on the planet!
In case you did\’nt know!
Derryck.
NYC
Comment from Mauricio
Time July 8, 2009 at 1:48 pm
In Spanish you can convert a word by adding suffix, in this case negro to negrito, the translation is \"little black\", but also when you use this suffix is to be respectful, or being friendly in naming that adjective. If you say just negro, may sound offensive, negrito is more friendly, just describing the fact that he is black, but not judging the state of being black in a racist way.
Comment from Blakat
Time July 8, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Excellent cartoon! This is satire and that is what it does! My goodness, is it possible that nobody is able to get it?
Comment from Alberto Parrado
Time July 9, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Negrito is offensive indeed. It is used in Latinamerica by those who believe themselves to be \"white\", even though the\’re of mixed race. And it is not only racist but classist. Rich \"white\" latinamerican people use diminutives to soften their contempt for black, indigenous, poor people, or to seem familiar. One very good example is the Paramilitary backed president of Colombia who is very fond of using -ito, -ita diminutives.
Comment from Sean-South Africa
Time July 16, 2009 at 12:43 am
Satire is satire-doesnt matter WHO the target is. And Jeremy is one of the rising stars in the cartoon industry in our country.
And to Derek S Griffith, you must remember one thing-Its only Americans who think that Obama is the “most powerful man” on the planet, as well as that other ridiculous title ‘ leader of the free world” - Newsflash: There is actually a world outside of your borders. Your One Nation under Canada but above Mexico.
Catch a wake up dude
Comment from 1Earth
Time July 16, 2009 at 1:27 am
For me it’s hilarious because JerM is being ironic about the way we wish the world could be, depicting Obama as getting angry not about the obvious/tired/cliched racial implication of the comment, but about the fact that Obama’s height was insulted 
It’s even funnier in context, because JerM is from South Africa, land of the racial over-sensitive, where a comment like that would have drawn equal fire from the you’re-a-racist-because-you-said-I’m-black crowd.
But I’m near to wetting myself with laughter because it’s true that nobody knows where Tegucigalpa is, although I’m sure Tegucigalpians are laughing all the way at the publicity they’re getting from this small controversy 
See, without this cartoon, I wouldn’t have known that Tegucigalpa was not too far from La Paz. Now it’s at the top of places to visit next time I I’m in Honduras.
Go JerM!
Comment from Carlos Iriondo
Time July 29, 2009 at 2:13 pm
You can be sure that unlike his predecessor, he does know where Tegucigalpa is.
Comment from Derryck S Griffith
Time July 8, 2009 at 11:37 am
ATTENTION:
The Little Black Man (President Barack Obama), is the most powerful man on the planet!
In case you did\’nt know!
Derryck.
NYC