Austrian TV pundit says black people 'are not civilised enough to rule'

Austria's official state broadcaster is refusing to sack a senior political commentator who said blacks were not civilised enough to rule.

Klaus Emmerich, the retired editor-in-chief of Austrian broadcaster ORF's news and current affairs service, is the station's top political commentator for U.S. affairs. Der Spiegel likened him to Wolf Blitzer, CNN's legendary political commentator.

But covering the election in which Barack Obama was elected American president, Emmerich said: 'I do not want the western world being directed by a black man. And if you say this is a racist remark, I say you are damn right it is.' More...

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