"I understand what I posted on social media was wrong, offensive and unbecoming," Luray Mayor Barry Presgraves said Monday.
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.
Related video: Republicans struggle to react to Kamala Harris as VP pickPresgraves apologized at a town council meeting on Monday night. 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.
Quaker Foods North America dropped its Aunt Jemima image and name 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.Pence told Presgraves that the comment he posted"has a type of humor that has not been appropriate or funny" in either of their lifetimes, according to a copy of the email she posted on her Facebook page.
In a statement posted to its Facebook page last Monday, the town of Luray said they"reject racism" and are committed to working together with the community through understanding, compassion, and opportunity. The statement did not name Presgraves, but said the town council would discuss the events leading to the statement at its meeting Monday night.
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