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Jul 17, 2008, 11:51AM

No, No, It's Satire

A New York woman is threatening legal action against a t-shirt designer who she claims is responsible for her assault. The woman paid the man $69 for an "Obama Is My Slave" t-shirt, then was apparently surprised  when she wore it in public and four kids beat her up.

When a 25-year-old Manhattan graduate student who was assaulted Tuesday night got dressed that morning, she probably didn’t anticipate that her T-shirt would provoke four teens into shoving her, pulling out her earphones and spitting in her face.

Then again, with a shirt sporting the slogan, “Obama is my slave,” it may have been wise to consider the possibility.

Now she’s suing the $69 shirt’s designer, Apollo Braun, for “all he’s got,” the designer claims.

But the Israeli-born Braun — born Doron Braunshtein — says what allegedly happened to his now-disgruntled customer isn’t his fault — and that his outrageous design reflects not his views but those of “ordinary WASPs.”

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