Trump New York co-chair won't resign despite racist remarks about Obamas

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian and agencies

Trump New York co-chair won't resign despite racist remarks about Obamas

Carl Paladino, who said he wanted to see president dead of mad cow
disease and first lady living with a gorilla, will not resign despite school
board voting him out

Staff and agencies
Thursday 29 December 2016 23.01 GMT

The Trump presidential campaign New York co-chair who made inflammatory and racist statements about Barack and Michelle Obama says he will not resign from the Buffalo school board, which on Thursday voted to remove him.

Millionaire developer Carl Paladino last week told a Buffalo alternative newspaper he wanted to see the president dead of mad cow disease and the first lady living with a gorilla in Zimbabwe.

Having first said the comments had “nothing to do with race”, he also said they were examples of “old-style humour” intended “to wake people up … to get people’s attention”

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/29/carl-paladino-racist-obama-comments-will-not-resign

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LBN thread: School board votes to oust Trump campaign official who compared Michelle Obama to an ape

[LisaM]

1. When were remarks like that humorous?

I'm not a spring chicken, and I don't really ever remember thinking that wishing someone would die of a brain-eating disease was funny. Not that people wouldn't say it out of meanness, but I don't think they'd expect it to raise a laugh.

[frazzled]

2. The kind of humor that was ok when America was "great"?

Sorry, but we're not going to "make America great again" in that way. America was never great, even though it is the country I love. We've come a long way, baby. But we have a long way to go.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Wake people up to what?

The fact that you're racist asshole.

[LisaM]

5. I know! (and THAT was funny!)

You made me laugh. Exactly!!! Wake up to WHAT?

[Generator]

4. And this is one of oh four million reasons

to never ever stop resisting all things Trump until this asshole is gone.

[UTUSN]

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