Le Lookalike de Monsieur Obama

By GottaLaff

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's lookalike Michael Lamar [...] center, and President of the Representative Council of Black Associations in France (CRAN), Patrick Lozes, right, listen to French Socialist lawmaker Jean-Christophe Cambadelis, partly seen at left. [...] CRAN is launching this week a campaign against so-called "face controls" using an Obama lookalike, aiming at raising awareness among citizens and authorities.

Yoan Valat / AP Photo

Mais, oui... oui nous pouvons:

A French black group is parading a Barack Obama-lookalike at the lower house of parliament and in Paris in a campaign to highlight its concerns about alleged racial profiling by police in France.

After a stout "Yes We Can!," American actor Michael Lamar met lawmakers at the National Assembly for Monday's start of a media blitz by the Representative Council of Black Associations.

For years, the group, known by the French acronym CRAN, has raised questions about a country that has championed a colorblind standard that sees all citizens as just French, regardless of ethnic origins - and where collecting racial data is banned. [...]

Lamar, a San Francisco native who now lives in Philadelphia, was being taken - dressed neatly in suit and tie - to a police station and other parts of the capital, and CRAN was filming the reactions of passers-by for an upcoming publicity spot, the group said.

P.E. Obama needs to be cloned. We need at least deux of him.