From the Bangor Daily News: A vacationing President Obama and his family stopped in the "Mount Desert Island Ice Cream" shop in Bar Harbor, Maine for ice cream cones.
"Photos of the impromptu visit were taken and posted online, where several bloggers noticed that the shop's logo of an upright black fist clenching a spoon resembles the clenched black fist that was adopted as a black power symbol in the 1960s.
"In a claim that many people think could have been lifted from the satirical news outlet The Onion or 'The Daily Show,' several right-leaning bloggers have suggested that the decision by Obama, the nation's first black president, to patronize a shop with what one site called 'such a politically-sensitive logo' has hidden, intentional meaning."
For what it's worth (apparently not much in this hysterical silly season), the shop "is owned by a white woman and . . . Maine's population in 2008 was estimated to be 95 percent white and only 1 percent African-American . . ." The owner, Linda Parker, explains "that she went with the spoon-in-fist symbol to differentiate her company from other larger ice cream makers . . . It's just ice cream."
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