Pennsylvania
Related: About this forumPennsylvania mayor asked to resign for racist Facebook posts against Obama
YORK, Pa. The mayor of a tiny central Pennsylvania town is being asked to resign over racist pictures on his Facebook page, including two depicting apes with captions referring to President Obama and his family.
One image of a wagon full of orangutans refers to moving day at the White House.
Several West York borough council members say they want to see Mayor Charles Wasko leave office.
Wasko didnt respond to a Facebook message and wasnt answering his home telephone today. Reached by the York Daily Record, he used a vulgar term to describe whats going on up at the borough office.
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chillfactor
(7,576 posts)piece of shit the mayor is.
appleannie1
(5,067 posts)It is as if they think everyone is as small minded and racist as they are. As if it is some sort of norm to say derogatory things about other people because of race or religion or gender identification.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)BUT IT DOES
packman
(16,296 posts)race, ethnic, social and religious bigotry ran deep over multiple generations. It doesn't surprise me that it exists further east near York. When I grew up Blacks/Poles/Greeks/Italian/Slovak families were very clannish and local government was ripe with nepotism. The entire area played by that old standard , "It's not what you know, it's who you know"
appleannie1
(5,067 posts)Every kid in the neighborhood was welcome in our home to the point where if a mother wanted her kid to come home, she called our house and they were either in our house or playing on the corner in front of it. They were black, white, Italian, Irish etc. etc.