A supporter of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was spotted wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the words "Put the white back in the White House" at a campaign event this week
The Getty Images photograph was taken on Friday at a Romney/Ryan campaign event in Lancaster, Ohio.
According to Buzzfeed, a Romney spokesperson "commented that the shirt was reprehensible and has no place in this election."
This is not the first time in recent weeks that racism has been directed towards President Barack Obama.
On Tuesday, The Huffington Post reported that "a spate of symbolic protests against [the president] that have featured empty chairs and racist imagery continued this week in California, with an arrangement featuring a noose, watermelons and a birther sign."
"Go back to Kenya you idiot," read the sign that was reportedly set up along a remote road in Santa Clara County, Calif.
And last month, an Obama supporter in Texas said her Obama/Biden yard sign had been vandalized with the words "N*GGER LOVER -- Obama Sucks D*ck!"
"We have at least 4 African American families living on this street. I’m so offended," said the woman in the wake of the vandalism. "Not just because whoever did this is ignorant and misinformed and trespassed and vandalized my sign, but infinitely more for my neighbors who might have driven by and seen it.”
This is gonna be one of the messiest elections to date. ESPECIALLY Election Day. I honestly see someone getting killed. Could someone who's good with past elections say which was the messiest before?
This is gonna be one of the messiest elections to date. ESPECIALLY Election Day. I honestly see someone getting killed. Could someone who's good with past elections say which was the messiest before?
Yeah with the recounting of the votes. The messiness for this started in 2010 with ACORN. I see this topping that tbh. I've already seen outrageous comments from people I know irl
Romney stans are the PITS.They keep giving me reasons why I won't vote for him.The NERVE of some Romney supporters call out Obama supporters for voting just because of race when Roomney stans do **** like this.
