ABSTRACT
Sweden is a country which sees itself as inherently antiracist, and this is in accord with its global image since its governments supported anti-colonial and democratic struggles, movements, leaders and dissidents in the post-war period and throughout the Cold War. In other words, the whole affair became embarrassing, and Reverend Jackson was subsequently invited by Lund University to give a public lecture on the new multiracial Sweden and the new diverse Europe, with the clear message that such racial stereotypes cannot be tolerated. Another fundamental difference is that Swedish antiracism is heavily invested in colour blindness as its hegemonic ideology, and which again makes it different from the situation in the English-speaking world. In the ensuing debate the Swedish Artists National Organization and a more or less completely unanimous Swedish media defended the artist and his blackface cake as being radically antiracist.
