First Lady Visits Spain Despite Racist Climate

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Marbella, Spain - Michelle Obama and her youngest daughter, Sasha, seven, have arrived in Spain for a short holiday as US officials scrambled to defuse embarassing allegations of institutional racism against their host country.

Hours before the first African-American first lady of the US and her daughter were settling into the luxurious Villa Padierna hotel on the outskirts of Marbella, the US state department removed a warning about police racism in Spain from one of its websites.

"We have received isolated reports that racial prejudice may have contributed to the arrest or detention of some African-Americans travelling in Spain," the bureau of consular affairs had warned on its travel advice website.

"Recently, two African-American US government employees were questioned by police in Barcelona for no apparent reason. One was detained and suffered physical injuries in the process."

The warning disappeared yesterday, but was still accessible in the page's internet cache.

Sources at the Villa Padierna hotel said that Michelle Obama had told them she had come to Spain to rest and relax. President Barack Obama, who turns 49 today, is not expected in Spain. His elder daughter Malia, 10, is at a summer camp.

Secret service personnel working for the White House have already scouted several spots that the Obama's might visit, including the Alhambra palace complex at Granada.

Michelle Obama is expected to see King Juan Carlos and other members of Spain's royal family, who are holidaying in Majorca.



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[ballershanelle]

spain welcomed her...stop creating news. I think the usa got enough of lying media after the director was fired for making an madeup racial remark. Her we go again...madeup news.

[jordzkie05]

dear spain:

your fans throw banana peels and make monkey noises at black soccer players

your coaches deride black athletes with racial epithets

your fans showed up dress in black face and hurled racial taunts at a black Formula 1 racer

your olympic team believed it was appropriate to take squinty eyed photos to commemorate China hosting the Olympics

one of your top models casually said that he would not kiss a black women at the photo shoot on the ever popular America's Next Top Model

[911sanitarium]

Spain full of racist's drugs and gays

[nenu]

as always the english-speaking media showing their ignorant trolly knowledge about the world

[mwan245]

@jordzkie05

i heard they're also racist towards south americans and arabs

[anguissolalover]

@jordzkie05 yet they're not racist..

been there twice, very hateful people.

[XoCaSo5]

@jorge63403 Calla ignorante de mierda, quien ha dicho que nos creemos arios, somos blancos pero no racistas. we are white people but never racist.

[pjboom]

@jordzkie05 still we don't shoot them at the frontier.

[jorge63403]

enserio los españoles se creen arios?.jajaja son racistas?por que no se miran en el espejo?puuutooos

[luciferiexcelsil]

@gfenton282 no... Moreno means= brunette... if you specify... "de piel morena", that means, of darker/tan skin.

[Eltxitxingorri]

I dont think that Spain is more racist than the U.S.

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