Republican National Convention staffers scrambling to remove Jim Crow-like ‘white elevators’ signs

[UCmeNdc]

You can not make this stuff up......

The GOP had elevators labeled "white elevators". Why?


Republican National Convention staffers are scrambling to remove signs labeling a bank of elevators as “white elevators,” the Wall Street Journal’s Byron Tau reports.

Tau is in Cleveland, along with many reporters, gearing up for the Convention. The signs, meanwhile, are being frantically replaced.

“I’m told it’s being replaced for obvious reasons,” Tau tweeted.

According to the New York Daily News, the signs were spotted in Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena. It’s unclear how or why the signs were posted.

The discovery comes amid controversy swirling around the GOP’s presumptive nominee, Donald Trump, who has espoused what critics have called racist views. Trump has won the support of white supremacists with his rhetoric against immigrants from Mexico, Muslim and Jewish people.

His political rallies have also been racially-charged spectacles where black demonstrators were roughed up, threatened or beaten by white Trump supporters.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/republican-national-convention-staffers-scrambling-to-remove-jim-crow-like-white-elevators-signs/

[Freddie]

1. I believe it's part of the building's layout

There's also blue elevators, green elevators etc.
Totally innocent but how very appropriate.

[Her Sister]

2. Yes! You're right! Prob Innocent! But symbolic of their whole thing they got going on this year!

Serves them right! Like the TP logo! Mortifying for them! BUT SERVES THEM RIGHT!

[mythology]

4. Sometimes people don't think things through very well

I remember once walking by a sign for a college graduation called the hooding and robing ceremony and pondering if I would feel comfortable going to something that sounded like a meeting of the Klan. Yes I know there were hoods and robes long before the Klan, but the name just struck me.

[rickford66]

3. So they're being politically Correct?

[KingCharlemagne]

7. Thread winner! Hands down nails thos hypocritical bastards! - nt

[kevink077]

5. I did not believe this was true at first

Thought it was from the onion or something. wow. This is going to be a fun campaign with the staggering level of incompetence on the Trump side.

[alterfurz]

6. Fits right in with the campaign's newest logo