{"id":5828,"date":"2011-04-21T13:33:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T17:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5828"},"modified":"2011-04-21T13:33:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T17:33:26","slug":"tea-party-member-sends-racist-email-of-obama-as-a-chimpanzee-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5828","title":{"rendered":"Tea Party Member Sends Racist Email Of Obama As A Chimpanzee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A racist e-mail depicting <strong>President Obama<\/strong> and his parents as monkeys that was circulating to some Tea party members was made public last Friday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marilyn Davenport<\/strong>, a Southern California Tea Party activist and member of the central committee of the Orange County Republican Party distributed the email many are deeming as racist and inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>The email, which contains a picture of <strong>Obama&#8217;s<\/strong> face plastered on a family picture of chimpanzees, also has the quote: \u201cNow you know why \u2014 No birth certificate!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response to public outcry, after her email was leaked to the public, <strong>Davenport<\/strong> said, \u201cOh, come on! Everybody who knows me knows that I am not a racist. It was a joke. I have friends who are Black. Besides, I only sent it to a few people\u2013mostly people I didn&#8217;t think would be upset by it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Chairman of the California Republican Party <strong>Michael Schroder<\/strong> says this is no isolated incident by <strong>Davenport<\/strong>, sighting prior incidents of racist support, and is calling for the Tea party member&#8217;s resignation.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2009, <strong>Davenport <\/strong>defended a colleague who sent an image of a watermelon to the White House. When another city council member voted against installing grass turf near the beach, citing that it would \u201cattract Mexicans,\u201d <strong>Schroder<\/strong> alleges that she defended him as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A racist e-mail depicting President Obama and his parents as monkeys that was circulating to some Tea party members was made public last Friday. Marilyn Davenport, a Southern California Tea Party activist and member of the central committee of the Orange County Republican Party distributed the email many are deeming as racist and inappropriate. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}