RACISM IS ALIVE AND WELL IN THE U S OF A…..
Newsletter depicts Obama with watermelon, ribs
The Associated Press
Article Launched: 10/16/2008 10:58:29 AM PDT
RIVERSIDE, Calif.—A San Bernardino County Republican group has distributed a newsletter picturing Barack Obama on a phony $10 bill adorned with a watermelon, ribs and a bucket of fried chicken.
The illustration appears in the October newsletter of the Chaffey Community Republican Women, Federated.
It has been denounced by various GOP officials.
Diane Fedele, the group’s president, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise in Thursday’s edition the move had no racist intent.
She says she plans to send an apology letter to her members and apologize at the club’s meeting next week.
Fedele says she had received the illustration in e-mails and decided to reprint it to poke fun at a previous remark by Obama that he doesn’t look like other presidents.