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May 14, 2008 7:00 am US/Mountain

T-Shirt Bearing Obama's Name Sparks Protests

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) ― A T-shirt bearing Barack Obama's name has sparked a protest in Georgia.

The shirt being sold at a bar in Marietta shows a cartoon chimp, Curious George, peeling a banana with the words "Obama in '08" printed beneath.

About a dozen people gathered outside the bar yesterday to protest. The Southeast regional director of the Anti-Defamation League says the shirt is "an outrageous slur" against Obama and all African-Americans.

Mike Norman, who owns Mulligan's Food and Spirits says the T-shirt is not meant to be racist. He says he thinks it's funny because he says Obama and Curious George, quote, "look so much alike."

(© 2009 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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