Judge Tom Head is under fire for an offensive poster he put up on a public bulletin board in the Lubbock, TX county courthouse. The poster shows nine arrest photos of people wearing Obama t-shirts, accompanied by the text:
Did you ever see anyone arrested wearing a Bush T-shirt, or for you older folks, an Eisenhower?, Gerald Ford?, Ronald Reagan?, even Nixon?, or any political t-shirt? There MUST be a message here, but I can’t quite grasp it, or maybe I’m afraid to.
Above the pictures is a fake narration of a person waking up, putting on an Obama t-shirt, holding up a convenience store, buying drugs, and beating his wife. County commissioners have since removed the poster. But Head is standing by it, saying, “I don’t consider it racist. I still don’t.” The poster seems to have first popped up on an online conservative message board, posted by “tom2″ in Texas. “tom2″ said that he received the image and text from his nephew.
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