"White people with blue eyes" are to blame for the world crisis, says the president of Brazil. 

Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva’s comment yesterday not only made British Prime Minister Gordon Brown uncomfortable as he stood next to the Brazilian leader, but has others thinking, "He said what?!"

Speaking just days before next week’s G20 summit, The Guardian reports, Lula ranted about globalization, said the poor are even poorer, thanks to the acts of the rich, and added: "This crisis was caused by no black man or woman or by no indigenous person or by no poor person … This crisis was fostered and boosted by irrational behavior of some people that are white, blue-eyed. Before the crisis they looked like they knew everything about economics, and they have demonstrated they know nothing about economics."

After being asked to clarify his remarks, Lula said, "I only record what I see in the press. I am not acquainted with a single black banker."

Lula and Brown both called for the world’s biggest economies to provide $100 billion to boost global trade. Sky News says Lulu’s "white people" comments made for an "uncomfortable" moment for Brown. "The president does not mind using fairly flamboyant language. He likes to give extensive answers to journalists," Sky News said. "But some of it was rather awkward for the prime minister, who was standing there listening to the president. A few eyebrows will have gone up at what he said."

Lulu’s tirade also has some crying racism.

"It never ceases to amaze me that this kind of anti-white racism is considered perfectly normal in civilized company. If Lula would have been white and blamed ‘long-nosed, brown-eyed Jews’ for the crisis, he would have been shot down. But racism directed at whites? Ah, no problem," says one blog.

Watch Lula’s remarks below: