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October 17, 2008

GOP racist newsletter gets woman in hot water

Note the food stamps label, bucket of fried chicken and, reaching back into the more overtly racist past, a slice of watermelon.

This image was part of a newsletter sent out by the Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated in southern California. The group's president, Diane Fedele, claims that it wasn't intended to be racist and aknowledged that it originally came from a chain-email she'd received.

I first found out about it reading a post by Marcus over at Center Field which has other examples of the GOP/racism confluence being directed at Obama. I recommend cruising on over there to check it out.

Personally I find it all very disgusting and the lame attempts by Fedele and her ilk to portray it as something other than ugly racism that it is to be utterly unpersuasive.

Posted by Kevin at October 17, 2008 10:37 AM