Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Everybody likes watermelons

Salon finds former senator Rick Santorum's not the only one with a Google issue. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour has a whole string, of which this is but one:

Haley Barbour and watermelon: This refers to a recently resurfacedNew York Times article from 1982 that reported:
But the racial sensitivity at Barbour headquarters was suggested by an exchange between the candidate and an aide who complained that there would be ''coons'' at a campaign stop at the state fair. Embarrassed that a reporter heard this, Mr. Barbour warned that if the aide persisted in racist remarks, he would be reincarnated as a watermelon and placed at the mercy of blacks.
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