Racist post on Brown County GOP Facebook elicits bipartisan backlash
Boris Ladwig
A racist post on the official Facebook page of the Brown County Republican Party has elicited some bipartisan backlash.
The post, which has been taken down, included an alleged newspaper editorial espousing white supremacist tropes and was littered with dog whistles including that Black people come from “jungles,” have “virtually no intellectual achievements” and continue to show that they’re culturally incompatible despite best efforts to integrate them into white people’s “majestic civilization.”
The piece is “deeply grounded in white supremacy,” totally overlooks historical intellectual and cultural achievements of Africans, and glosses over centuries of enslavement and marginalization of people of African descent, said Darryl M. Heller, director of the Civil Rights Heritage Center and assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at Indiana University South Bend.
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It was a year ago Saturday that the first Hoosier was stricken with what has become our 21st Century nightmare, COVID-19. Ten days later Roberta “Birdie” Shelton became the first known death, dying alone in a pandemic that came quickly and with great mystery.
Now, some 12,633 Hoosier deaths later (and more than 517,000 nationally), we are seeing what has been widely described as a light at the end of the tunnel. Earlier this week, the millionth Hoosier took what is nothing short of a modern miracle, a vaccination developed and tested in less than a year that is guaranteed to keep you out of the hospital and an early grave.
Died: Nov. 23
He made a living running Fort Wayne restaurants that employed thousands and fed thousands over four decades.
It was the disciplined side of Tom Casaburo Sr. s personality that made him a successful businessman, for years the face of The Casa Restaurant Group, now led by two of his sons.
Known as a perfectionist, Casaburo expected employees to provide exceptional customer service.
“He was exactly what a United States marine would be,” one of his sons, Jim Casaburo, said in November. “He was tough. He paid attention to detail.”
Casaburo opened his first restaurant, Casa D Angelo on Coldwater Road, with the late Jimmy D Angelo in 1977. D Angelo retired from the business in 1993 and sold his share to Casaburo and his wife, Sharon.