Arkansas City mayor apologizes for blackface skit
12:07 p.m. Thursday, October 2, 2008
The mayor of a South-central Kansas town is apologizing for appearing in blackface as part of a fundraiser.
Arkansas City Mayor Mell Kuhn won the drag queen beauty contest in which he not only appeared in blackface but also used sexually suggestive slang for his character's name. The contest was part of a fundraiser held over the weekend by the Court Appointed Special Advocates, which supports foster children.
Arkansas City Mayor Mell Kuhn
Kuhn's apology came after a meeting Wednesday night with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The apology, posted on the group's Web site, said it was shortsighted of Kuhn not to see how offensive his actions were in the first place.
The mayor previously had defended himself to the local paper, The Arkansas City Traveler, saying he did not care what people thought.
Read more at ArkCity.net.
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Oct. 2, 2008 at 4:08 p.m. (Suggest removal)parkay (anonymous)
Hey, Mickey Rooney appeared on the black-and-white movie screen once in blackface. But then, he wasn't obscene, vulgar, or in drag. And he had talent.
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The CDC estimates that 1.1 million Americans are now infected with HIV, as the infected now survive longer, and more are infected by reckless, immoral, and criminal behavior, with sodomites identified as primarily responsible for the spread of the disease, accounting for 48% of infections. 28% were women infected by male drug users, and contaminated drug needles infected 19%. 46% of the total infected were black, 35% were white, and 18% Hispanic.
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