The Estonian town of Tartu took interracial relations, tolerance and mutual understanding to a new level by offering residents the opportunity to be black for a day, local media reported on Thursday, according to dpa. "You could say Tartu has a problem with black people - we just do not have any," according to a press statement on the city government website. So to help residents understand what it is like to be black in the almost-exclusively white Tartu, 180 kilometres south-east of the capital Tallinn, residents can cover their faces with washable brown paint at a local art gallery and return to their daily activities, delfi.ee news portal reported. "Tartu has a complicated relationship with black people. Some of them show up here every once in a while, but they don't stay long," a press statement said. A number of foreign visitors to the town as well as non-white students attending the University of Tartu have reportedly been harassed by Estonian skinheads in the past. A small Baltic nation, Estonia joined the European Union and NATO in 2004.
