There is so little racism in this country, blacks are reduced to making issues out of non-issues like this.
http://www.stationgossip.com/2023/09/activists-demand-texas-mayor-resign.html
sep 28 2023 Liberal activists are demanding that a Texas mayor resign after receiving a gift of bananas that they call a white supremacist "global symbol" of the hatred of black people.
The gift of bananas and a toy monkey was given to Mayor Mike Snyder, the mayor of Hutto, a town of about 27,000 people in central Texas
The Austin American-Statesman reported that no one criticized Snyder at the time, but it became an issue at the next meeting of the city council when the bananas were denounced as a symbol of racism.
"From a historical standpoint, Black people have always been compared to monkeys and monkeys eat bananas," said Nelson Linder, the president of the Austin chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "The banana is a global
symbol of white supremacy and hatred of Black people."
Onnesha Williams, co-founder of Black Families of Hutto, called for the mayor to resign over the incident.
"It's haunting. It's taunting. It's harassing. It's the same as going to work and having a noose hanging at your desk," she claimed.
City Councilmember Brian Thompson, who is black, called on the mayor to apologize and receive cultural sensitivity training.
"This act demonstrated prejudice and raised questions about the mayor's commitment to foster an inclusive and equitable community," said Thompson. "Accepting a gift of bananas, a historically racist symbol used to demean and dehumanize Black Americans,
is not only disrespecting myself and Council Member (Dana) Wilcott but undermining the trust and inclusivity needed for effective government."
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