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RNC Facebook Photo: Racist Anti-Obama Picture
RNC Facebook Photo Taken Down: Racist Anti-Obama Picture Written by Elyse Siegel First Posted: 10-26-09 02:48 PM | Updated: 10-26-09 03:55 PM
***The Republican National Committee came under fire after a user posted a controversial photo on its Facebook page. The RNC "fan" upload features a picture of President Obama eating fried chicken with the slogan: "Miscegenation Is a CRIME against American values... Repeal Loving v. Virginia." ***Loving v. Virginia is a milestone civil rights case that led the Supreme Court to rule that prohibiting interracial marriage violates the Constitution.
***Though the "miscegenation" post was removed from the RNC's Facebook page after provoking outrage, Newsweek points out that the slip-up is not an isolated incident:
***E-mail has been a recurring Achilles heel. In February, the mayor of Los Alamitos, Calif., sent around an image of the White House surrounded by watermelons; he was forced to resign. The leader of a San Bernadino County, Calif., Republican women's club resigned last fall when the club circulated a similar photo, with then-candidate Obama surrounded by fried chicken, watermelon and ribs.
The web also spread word of two South Carolina Republicans' reference to a stereotype about Jews.
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