And of course they called the cops
The president of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation is disturbed by an offensive t-shirt the group received in the mail Wednesday, the day after Barack Obama claimed his party’s presidential nomination. The shirt has a cartoon image of Curious George, the beloved children’s character, with a paper bag over his head holding a sign that says “A Truth We Can Believe in ’08!!!” written underneath.
CBCF President Elsie Scott says she believes the timing of the package was no coincidence. “We received it as a reaction to Obama winning the nomination,” she tells the Sleuth.
The t-shirt was made by a company called Spring River Tees, which also on its Web site sells “Obama in ’08” t-shirts that depict Curious George. The “truth-we-can-believe-in” t-shirt that the CBCF received is also sold on the web site, titled “Hussein,” which is Obama’s middle name.
This t-shirt, which arrived by mail at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation from an anonymous donor, lists several black organizations and asks: “Who is really causing the racial division?”
Scott said she found the t-shirt “offensive” and when she looked more closely at the back of it, she became “very disturbed” and reported the contents of the package to the hate crimes unit of the D.C. Metropolitan Police.