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Friday, February 06, 2015

Why a Bobby Jindal Portrait Sparked a Racial Controversy

History validates the Twitter storm over a portrait of the Louisiana Governor
Or so went the jokes of many Twitter users who saw a photo tweeted widely this week of Indian-American Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s purported “official portrait,” in which, well, he’s been whitewashed to the shade of Benedict Cumberbatch. It turned out it wasn’t actually Jindal’s official portrait, and instead just a portrait loaned by a constituent, according to Jindal’s chief of staff, Kyle Plotkin, who shared on Twitter the actual painting (still with brightened skin, albeit less so) while slamming users for “race-baiting.”

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3 comments:

Steve said...

Good Lord, that's all this country has to worry about; Racism where there is none stirred up by ignorant politicians!

Anonymous said...

His portrait should have his skin color. It should look like him. And good ole supposedly racist Louisiana elected him because, well, they didn't give a crap what his skin color was.

Anonymous said...

This dum dum story aside, I will say that Jindal is 100% artificial.