They’re all bought and sold: American democracy belongs to the billionaires now

[Aegon]

KUSA, I know what you're getting at, but your point also ignores the history of the dehumanization of blacks by comparing them to apes. That's really what makes it racist. Otherwise yeah, it would just be a funny picture of Obama looking like a monkey just like it's funny when Bush looks like a monkey. Same thing for blackface: Americans see it as incredibly racist because of it's been used throughout history to make fun of black people, but in the Netherlands it's not seen as big of a deal because the history of blackface there is very different.