People, Politics and Prejudice
Some Westchester County New York political officials are standing in a pile of doo-doo after forwarding a racially tinged email which pictured the caricature of U.S. President-elect Barack Obama saying “Eyez yo new prezident.”
According to an article published in the The Journal News, fire commissioner Bruce Bell sent the email to Assistant Fire Chief Thomas Reddy, who then forwarded it to others. Both officials used personal Yahoo! accounts with identifying info to forward the email.
Now, Bell isn’t talking, and Reddy is claiming that he didn’t mean to offend anyone; he thought the cartoon was a “political spoof”; and racist aliens hacked his email account and did the forwarding. (Okay the last one I made up, but it sounds more plausible than his real excuses.) Read more…