Senate Candidate Promises ‘Kool Aid, KFC and Watermelons’ at Harlem Campaign Event

[Blue_Adept]

A candidate for New York State Senate has sparked a firestorm in Harlem after telling NBC 4 New York's I-Team he was planning to hand out “Kool Aid, KFC and watermelons” at a campaign event in the primarily black community.

Jon Girodes, the Republican candidate for New York’s 30th District in the November election, used the racially stereotypical food reference in an email to the I-Team during an exchange about a disputed real estate deal.

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/Senate-Candidate-State-Jon-Girodes-New-York-Republican-Harlem-Fried-Chicken-Watermelon-Racist-396668921.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_NYBrand

[Orrex]

1. Maybe he can offer to perform a minsrel show and then lynch them

For ol' times' sake.

[gratuitous]

2. An especially clueless racist

He should have advertised "red drank" instead of Kool-Aid. These ignorant fuckers can't even get their insulting stereotypes right.

[underpants]

3. LOL

Spot on

[underpants]

4. Hold it. Wait. He has an explanation

“What I think is anyone who gives free food to people is doing them a favor,” Girodes told the I-Team. “Get a bunch of people who say it’s offensive and let me go into their neighborhood and give it out for free and see if they take it.”

[lame54]

5. Finally - an e-mail worth talking about

[demmiblue]

6. Arsehole.

These people make me sick.

[uponit7771]

7. +1

[UTUSN]

8. R#9 & K n/t