Race row over Balotelli cartoon

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Anti-racism campaigners have blasted a cartoon in an Italian newspaper depicting Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli as King Kong.

The Italian forward is reported to be deeply unhappy at the cartoon and the Gazzetta dello Sport has apologised.

A spokesman for anti-discrimination group Kick It Out said: "Mario's very presence in the Italian team is symbolic on so many levels.

The Italian media ought to champion this individual rather than singling him out as a scapegoat and somehow inferior to his international team-mates."

The drawing - published on the day of Italy's Euro 2012 meeting with England - showed Balotelli on top of Big Ben in a reference to King Kong on New York's Empire State Building. It has led to a number of complaints from readers prompting the newspaper to apologise.

Link: Race row over Balotelli cartoon - Yahoo! Eurosport UK



News paper never apologised over the Prophet Muhammad cartoon and were was the anti-discrimination group hiding.

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if ballotelli would kill someone who throws a banana at him whats he gonna do to the person who drew that.

[masur123]

Personally I think its an uncanny resemblance....