ajc.com, via Michael D. of Balloon-Juice: Racism is alive and well, here in America.

Group protests at Cobb bar, calling Obama T’shirts racist

Marietta tavern owner Mike Norman says the T’shirts he’s peddling, featuring cartoon chimp Curious George peeling a banana, with “Obama in ‘08” scrolled underneath, are “cute.” But to a coalition of critics, the shirts are an insulting exploitation of racial stereotypes from generations past.

“It’s time to put an end to this,” said Rich Pellegrino, a Mableton resident and director of the Cobb-Cherokee Immigrant Alliance. He was among about 15 people who protested outside Mulligan’s Bar and Grill Tuesday afternoon against the sale of the “racist and highly offensive” shirts.

“There’s no place for these views, not in this day and age,” he said.

Republicans have such dark hearts. There’s a special hell awaiting them.