Is this Racist ?

                                       

Posters promoting a new line of cigarettes featured pictures of monkeys dressed as news reporters,

declaring "Africa is coming !

how?

The company, KT&G, says they contain African tobacco roasted and dried in a traditional fashion.

The cigarette packets contain images of monkeys roasting tobacco.

"We are deeply offended by KT&G's shameless and insulting use of this mocking imagery,"

said the African Tobacco Control Alliance in a statement calling for the withdrawal of the ad

campaign, saying it was "at a minimum culturally insensitive".

"Mocking Africa to sell a product that causes death and disease is unacceptable,

and we will not stand for the exploitation of Africa by tobacco companies."

This is a Korean firm cigarettes 

                             

"We absolutely had no intention to offend anyone and only chose monkeys

because they are delightful animals that remind people of Africa,"

roasted in the african way ::confused:: ::confused::

the same fiyah the congo man used fuh white meat ::confused:: ::confused::

Are Monkeys exclusive to Africa ?

In Guyana , we have all the Species and tons and tons ....