County Judge Tom Head defended on Friday potentially offensive posters that commissioners removed from a public bulletin board he maintained in the courthouse.
He intended the posters, including one that contained racially stereotyped descriptions of Obama supporters, to spark conversation about modern issues, he said.
“Nobody’s ever said anything to me, personally,” Head said. “Apparently it’s performing its task now, because somebody got emotional about it.”
Commissioners removed the posters, saying the county faced bigger issues and did not need a new distraction.
Head said he began posting to the bulletin board five to six years ago. Most of the postings reflected his socially and politically conservative views, and he intended for people who held different views to contact him, he said.
McCay removed a series of printouts that began with a short narration of a person contemplating waking up, putting on an Obama T-shirt and then abusing drugs, robbing a store and hitting his wife.
A sheet of mug shots of mostly black men wearing Obama shirts had been tacked beneath the narration. Another printout suggesting no mug shots would show a criminal wearing a shirt supporting a Republican president hung beneath the pictures.
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