Alabama County Republicans apologized after posting images of the Ku Klux Klan on their Facebook page.
The Lawrence County Republican Party, which serves the region west of Decatur in the northwestern state, said they intend to postgraphics instates. increase. Posted a version of the elephant, often used as a mascot for the Republican Party, where the space between the elephant's legs looks like a hooded Klansman. We deeply and sincerely apologize for the photo," Shannon Terry wrote in a Facebook post, , apologizing for the image. “A Google search image of her of an elephant from theGOP was used, but was later found to hide an image that does not represent the views or beliefs of the Lawrence County Republican Party.”
This image was not originally drawn to flatter the Republican Party. This stems from his 2020 Mother Jonesarticle, in which longtime Republican strategist Stuart Stevens called the Republican Party an underlying racist I expressed it.
This image was at the bottom of a post announcing the resignation of County Party Chairman Daniel Stover and thanking him for his service.
House Minority Leader Anthony Daniels condemned the use of images in tweets. Alabama has a unique history of being a bastion of violent resistance to According to a University of Missouri-Kansas City study, in Alabama between 1882 and his 1968 he lynched 299 blacks. In February, the University of Alabama Board of Trustees votedto remove Bibb Graves' name from campus buildings. Mr. Graves, who ran the state in the 1920s and his 1930s, ran a branch of his klan cooing from the campus building. The Klan is still active in Alabama today, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
