What do you get when you gather a group of adorable blond German kids, use mud to paint them in blackface, and then slap the pictures all over Deutschland? Lots of pissed off liberals for starters.
UNICEF Germany is the offending organization behind these PSAs showing "four German kids who appeal for solidarity with their contemporaries in Afrika." Originally meant to draw attention to Africa's education crisis, the ads have been pulled following public outcry.
We can only imagine the meeting in which this campaign was conceived.
Ad Man 1: "What better way to relate to African children and call attention to their plight than by smothering our kids' faces in mud?"
Ad Man 2: "How about reducing its entire population to dirty, neglected tots?"
Together: "Ja!"