A photo that surfaced Tuesday of 1st Ward aldermanic candidate Daniel La Spata wearing a banana costume while posing with four black children and men wearing monkey masks isn’t racist, his campaign said — even as the City Council’s Black Caucus chairman said it was.
La Spata’s campaign manager, Jeff Salvadore, confirmed to the Chicago Sun-Times the authenticity of the Sep. 2013 photo that was first posted on La Spata’s Facebook page but that has since been deleted.
Salvadore said there were no ill intentions behind the photo, but that La Spata understands how it could be perceived as racist and “apologizes unequivocally” for any pain he caused.
The photo was taken during a “goofy, kind of a fun activity” that was part of La Spata’s bachelor party, Salvadore said. La Spata’s friends had surprised him with the banana costume, then put on monkey masks and chased him around Millennium Park.
A screenshot of the Facebook post shows La Spata called the gathering “the most absurd bachelor party of the year.”
The four African-American boys in the photo asked to pose with the group because the costumes looked “ridiculous,” according to Salvadore.
ht/ chiguy
I dont see any black kids!
Uh Oh
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DuGOHEFVYAAbzkP.jpg
What a bunch of humorless blobs. When I see a monkey or a banana I do not think of black people. What type of people associate banana and monkey costumes with people??? As if I have to ask.
I am obviously a racist because I like verybustmonkey’s knitwear designs https://www.ravelry.com/designers/verybusymonkey
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I buy catnip ‘naners for the herd https://www.chewy.com/yeowww-catnip-yellow-banana-cat-toy/dp/130264
OT, Chuck Yeagers birth day today. 96. He’s more shocked than any one. Happy Birthday Patriot
Peanut butter jelly time!
Nigros are hypersensitive. It’s best to avoid all contact with them
I suppose the first thing we must to, after re-reading ‘Roots’ of course, is to free all the monkeys in the zoo. Wouldn’t want anyone to get the ideas of racism.
“A screenshot of the Facebook post shows La Spata called the gathering “the most absurd bachelor party of the year.”
The four African-American boys in the photo asked to pose with the group because the costumes looked “ridiculous,” according to Salvadore.”
#IBelieveHim
I could never run for office. That pornographic pic, posed atop my parents bed, my naked 6 month old bum exposed, would surely come back to haunt me. Geesh.
I was a banana before I was an orange, now I identify as an apple, I thought Demonrats were pro fruits. Guess rasicm trumps orientation, all this intersexinalty is so confusing…
Liberals should be flown into the sun.
I don’t get it.
A “racist” banana?
What? Over ripe?
“Pain” it caused? How? Exactly?
Kafka’s novels were not as absurd as we’ve become.
izlamo delenda est …
I think if the black people around him found it racist, there would be pictures of him getting his ass kicked. Not standing around laughing.
why does the city of Chicago have a black caucus?
Jeez, can you imagine the uproar if he came as a watermelon?
MJA, to their constituents, more of a black cock -us, if you get my drift…