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 vice-presidential running mate.
"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."
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 was taught"what comes out the mouth can hurt and you have to be careful what you speak because words do hurt," she said.
At least one resident at the meeting said he did not deem the Facebook comment as racist. Another resident said that he did not believe that the mayor intended for his comments to be racist “although in the context, they very much were.”in mid-June, saying they recognize the origins of the character are based on"a racial stereotype" of a Black"mammy" who raised her master's white children.
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