Someone didn’t think that through.
Why? Assuming the photo is real, it is obviously a standard match template with two countries’ initial three letters. If anyone makes an association to black person, it is their own fault. If anyone even finds it offensive, they are simply stupid.
Intent doesn’t matter here. It’s offensive whether it’s intentional or not. If you don’t think that, you’re not hooked up right.
Don’t be stupid.
Don’t embarrass yourself.
This is clearly one the many ways in which you are not hooked up right.
First and foremost, to a person with a normally functioning brain, that thing was just a standard match template indicating the opposing countries and nothing more.
Second, even if we (for some stupid reason) make the association to a combination of letters “nigger”, it has no negative “baggage” attached to it as far as I am concerned. I am from a country with no colonial history, no slavery exploitation history and no racial problems history. Just because some countries (i.e. USA) had such shameful history and corrupted the above-mentioned combination of letters, it doesn’t mean the rest of us should just adopt the crap you are responsible for and feel bad when seeing or using such combination of letters.