Racism! Yeah, I know. It just goes in one ear and out the other with me too. So many of the Little Boy Who Cried Wolf usages by the left solely for political gain has made that term and those allegations meaningless and trivial. Well, satirical comedy with no ill will intended has now become racist, along with damn near everything in the world today.

German comedian Martin Sonneborn is well-known for jokes bordering on the tasteless. But a satirical political billboard of him posing in blackface makeup as US President Barack Obama is sparking outrage.

“Ick bin ein Obama (I am an Obama),” reads the poster at Berlin’s central Ernst Reuter Platz square, in an apparent play on John F. Kennedy’s famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech. On the poster, a “black” Sonneborn smiles as he raises his arm in the air.

The billboard is the latest in Sonneborn’s campaign for his satirical political party Die Partei ahead of state elections in Berlin this Sunday. It’s meant to make fun of the entire German political establishment and go up to the edge of propriety – another poster is entitled “MILFS against Merkel” and the campaign has also mocked the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party.

But the latest one is upsetting to some because of the racial connotations of blackface theatre, which was widespread in America in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

As Democrat Minnesota Senator Al Franken said during the ’08 election, “It’s just satire, get over it.” I’m sure for daring to publish the picture on this post, some sensitive, unmanly PC asshole will call me a racist. I have no doubt about that. That’s how those funny little people are.