USA – Italy: Berlusconi refusing to accept that Obama is black?

Scoop! For those who do not know that … Berlusconi is “paler than Obama!” The head of the Italian Government Thursday compared himself with the President of the United States, Nouvel Obs. “I’m paler” than Barack Obama, “particularly because it has been quite a while since I went into the sun, “he told journalists at the inauguration of an incinerator near Naples. These remarks have caused some people to insist that the Italian president may be refusing to accept that a black man could become president of a Western country.