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"If that's art, I'm a Hottentot." 

- Presdent Harry S. Truman, 1947. 

The objects of Truman's displeasure were a group of paintings about which Look magazine ran a spread under the watchdog headline "Your Money Bought These Pictures." The State Department had purchased the paintings for an exhibition that would travel overseas to proclaim by example that artistic creativity flourished best in America, under American capitalism. The paintings on trial--such as Yasuo Kuniyoshi's Expressionist Circus Girl--were hardly radical, even for the time. Cubism was four decades old and weirder-by-far Abstract Expressionism had already reared its head in New York. But back then, as now, it didn't take much to rouse yahoo ire, even in the White House. 

The show was canceled.

Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Expressionist Circus Girl

BTW:

Hottentot is a term that was historically used by Europeans to refer to indigenous nomadic pastoralists in South Africa. 

In seventeenth-century Dutch, Hottentot was at times used to denote all black people (synonymously with Kaffir, which was at times likewise used for Cape Coloureds), but at least some speakers used the term Hottentot specifically for what they thought of as a race distinct from the supposedly darker-skinned people referred to as Kaffirs.

Use of the terms Hottentot and Kaffir are now considered offensive.