Belgians Cruel Racist Past Surfaces as Obama is Called an Ape

Pic posted in a Belgian Newspaper

Obama monkey picture.It Looks like some things never change.In fairness,cos i have been to Belgium,a lot of Belgians of today are lovely and warm people.But when you see this pic of President Obama,and what has been done to it,it makes you wonder how many people such as this do we still have wondering around.
It's a disgrace that this could be done to arguably the most important black man alive today.
In past history the Belgians were one of the biggest racists ever! I could not even begin to tell you what they did to black people and how they chopped off hands of people in some African colonies.
King Leopold II of Belgium was responsible for the deaths and mutilation of 10 million Congolese Africans during the late 1800’s. The spoils of modern day Belgium owes much to
the people of the Congo River Basin.

        Congolese posing with the severed hands of those who failed to make the daily rubber sap quota.

In the 23 years (1885-1908) Leopold II ruled the Congo he massacred 10 million Africans by cutting off their hands and genitals, flogging them to death, starving them into forced labour, holding children ransom and burning villages. The ironic part of this story is that Leopold II committed these atrocities by not even setting foot in the Congo.
Unable to read or write, the Congolese tribal Chiefs, unwittingly sold their tribe members into a lifetime of slavery for pieces of cloth.

                                                              Some survived their hands being hacked off

In return for "one piece of cloth per month to each of the undersigned chiefs, besides present of cloth in hand, they promised to freely of their own accord, for themselves and their heirs and successors for ever...give up to the said Association [set up by Leopold] the sovereignty and all sovereign and governing rights to all their territories...and to assist by labour or otherwise, any works, improvements or expeditions which the said Association shall cause at any time to be carried out in any part of these territories... All roads and waterways running through this country, the right of collecting tolls on the same, and all game, fishing, mining and forest rights, are to be the absolute property of the said Association."
Such was the brutality of Leopold’s Congo that those who failed to meet the rubber quotas set by the Belgian officers, were routinely flogged with the chicote or had their hands severed (the chicotte was a whip made out of raw, sun-dried hippopotamus hide, cut into a long sharp-edged cork-screw strip. It was applied to bare buttocks, and left permanent scars. Twenty strokes of it sent victims into unconsciousness and a 100 or more strokes were often fatal. The chicotte was freely used by both Leopold's men and the French). 
S forgive me if i am not too shocked by the lovely pic by the Belgian Newspaper. Oh,by the way,the Newspaper apologised..so that makes everything ok i guess.....

some of the info here and pics courtesy of Digital Journal