It's Kamala!

[GMDino]

Gonna be an uphill struggle in some parts of the country.  I'm positive this isn't the only smalltown mayor with these views, spewing them about the interwebs.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/virginia-mayor-urged-resign-after-saying-biden-picked-aunt-jemima-n1236601?fbclid=IwAR3d7mpVu1L0EhmDgEHjP2Z8Mf6OCrYuHsnBK3wyrS7Z6XNw8pKGVyUkeHs

Quote:A Virginia mayor is facing calls for his resignation over a Facebook post in which he said that Joe Biden "just announced Aunt Jemima" as his running mate.


Luray Mayor Barry Presgraves posted the comment about two weeks ago on his Facebook page. The comment was condemned by members of the Luray Town Council and other residents before he took it down.

Luray is a town of less than 5,000 people, the majority of them white, according to the most recent census data. Four percent of the population is Black. The town is about 90 miles west of Washington, D.C.
Biden named California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate on Tuesday.


A number of Black women were on Biden’s running mate short list, including Florida Rep. Val Demings; California Rep. Karen Bass, who leads the Congressional Black Caucus; Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms; and Susan Rice, the former national security adviser to President Barack Obama.


Presgraves apologized at a town council meeting on Monday night.

"I want to make this very clear to everyone with absolutely no qualifications," Presgraves said. "I understand what I posted on social media was wrong, offensive and unbecoming."


Presgraves, 77, added that it does not reflect what is in his heart.


"I also want to make a direct apology to all people of color and women. Passing off demeaning and worn out 
racial stereotypes as humor isn't funny," he said, reading from a prepared statement. "I now fully understand how hurtful it is and I can and will do better and we can all do better. We must."


He concluded his statement by saying, "From the bottom of my heart, I am sorry and humbly ask for your forgiveness and your grace."


Barbara Veney, 69, a Luray resident, addressed Pregraves directly at the meeting.


"I've been here all my life. Almost 70 years. And today, I'm hurt," she said.


Veney told Presgraves she was not there to tear him down or speak ill of him but that she had to stand for what is right. Veney said her father was Black and white, her mother was Indian and Black, and that she was not taught to be racist. She said she was taught "what comes out the mouth can hurt and you have to be careful what you speak because words do hurt."


"We need somebody with positive thinking that will shape this community. No more dividing," she said. "In order for us to move on ... I'm asking you today, Mr. Mayor, that you step down in love — because I love you — and do the right thing."
At least one person at the meeti

ng said he did not deem the Facebook comment racist. Audre King, a resident of Luray, said that he did not believe that the mayor intended for his comments to be racist "although in the context, they very much were."

I'm aware we posted about this before but I wanted to share hie "apology" and wonder what IS in his heart if those words aren't from there.