Obama picture sparks controversy at Peterson

[unhappycamper]

Obama picture sparks controversy at Peterson
The Associated Press
Posted : Saturday Feb 14, 2009 14:40:22 EST

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — The head of the Colorado Springs NAACP is crying foul after a picture of President Obama was removed from a sign at the Peterson Air Force Base commissary.

The picture accompanied a sign near the entrance saying the government-run military grocery store would be closed on Presidents Day.

The Defense Commissary Agency, which oversees the store, says employees took it down after customers complained that the holiday is about Presidents Washington and Lincoln, not Obama.

Rosemary Harris, president of the Colorado Springs branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, says the commissary’s decision “bodes poorly for the progress that we hoped we would see in this country.”


Article at: http://airforcetimes.com/news/2009/02/ap_peterson_obama_pic_021409/%2e

[silverojo]

1. Rosemary Harris sounds like a moron

Did she really think racism would magically disappear just because Obama's the president? Or that this sort of shit wouldn't happen in a city filled with Fundie conservatards?

She needs to get a clue about the hatred that right-wingers live and breathe.