{"id":46736,"date":"2020-08-14T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/virginia-mayor-apologizes-for-calling-kamala-harris-aunt-jemima\/"},"modified":"2020-08-14T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T12:59:00","slug":"virginia-mayor-apologizes-for-calling-kamala-harris-aunt-jemima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/virginia-mayor-apologizes-for-calling-kamala-harris-aunt-jemima\/","title":{"rendered":"#Virginia mayor apologizes for calling Kamala Harris \u2018Aunt Jemima\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Virginia mayor apologizes for calling Kamala Harris \u2018Aunt Jemima\u2019<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 14, 2020 |<\/span> 8:59am <\/p>\n

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\n Luray Mayor Barry Presgraves and Sen. Kamala Harris<\/span>
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\n A Virginia mayor has apologized for saying Joe Biden \u201cjust announced Aunt Jemima\u201d as his running mate, saying he now understands his words were hurtful and inapp<\/a>ropriate.<\/p>\n

Luray Mayor Barry Presgraves, 77, said he was sorry at a town council meeting on Monday for the Aug. 2 Facebook<\/a> post that was later removed \u2014 but not before a council member, town officials and residents in the community called for the three-term mayor to step down.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand what I posted on social media was wrong, offensive and unbecoming,\u201d Presgraves said during the meeting, WTOP reports. \u201cI also want to make a direct apology to all people of color and women. Passing of demeaning and worn-out racial stereotypes as humor isn\u2019t funny.\u201d<\/p>\n

Presgraves, who is not seeking reelection, continued: \u201cI now fully understand how hurtful it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biden announced Tuesday that he selected California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate after pledging to select a woman for his ticket. Several other black women were also reportedly on his shortlist, including Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, Florida Rep. Val Demings, California Rep. Karen Bass and Susan Rice, who served as President Obama\u2019s national security adviser.<\/p>\n

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Luray, Virginia, Mayor Barry Presgraves apologized for posting a racist and sexist Facebook meme about Kamala Harris.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Presgraves, who rebuffed earlier calls to step down, promised Monday that he \u201ccan and will do better\u201d at the town meeting, during which at least one resident in the town of 4,800 \u2014 90 percent of whom are white \u2014 defended the mayor\u2019s comment while claiming calls for his resignation were politically motivated, WTOP reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the bottom of my heart, I am sorry and humbly ask for your forgiveness and your grace,\u201d Presgraves said.<\/p>\n

But the mea culpa didn\u2019t stop the Luray Town Council from voting to censure Presgraves for the \u201charmful words\u201d he shared on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour apology is a step towards reconciliation with our citizens, however, damage both internal and external to our community still remains,\u201d the censure reads.<\/p>\n

Councilmember Leah Pence, who previously called for Presgraves to resign, was the sole vote against the measure, saying it was \u201cnot strong enough,\u201d WTOP reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that the council should have recommended that he resign,\u201d Pence told the station Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris<\/span>Olivier Douliery\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 2019, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam refused to step down after a photo showed a person in blackface and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan outfit appeared on 1984 medical school yearbook page.<\/p>\n

Northam, a Democrat, initially apologized for the photo before denying he was either individual. He did admit, however, darkening his face to look like Michael Jackson for a dance contest in 1984.<\/p>\n

An independent probe later \u201ccould not conclusively determine\u201d that the governor wore blackface, according to reports.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“#Virginia mayor apologizes for calling Kamala Harris \u2018Aunt Jemima\u2019” August 14, 2020 | 8:59am Enlarge Image Luray Mayor Barry Presgraves and Sen. Kamala Harris Town of Luray; AFP A Virginia mayor has apologized for saying Joe Biden \u201cjust announced Aunt Jemima\u201d as his running mate, saying he now understands his words were hurtful and inappropriate….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53425],"class_list":["post-46736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-virginia-mayor-apologizes-for-calling-kamala-harris-aunt-jemima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}