A Kentucky man has sparked a public outcry after he put up a statue of President Barack Obama eating watermelon. His critics say the display is blatantly racist.
When asked why he chose to depict Obama, the nation’s first black president, eating watermelon, Danny Hafley said he “might get hungry standing out here.”
Hafley told LEX18 in Lexington said he is merely exercising his right to free speech and the statue is protected under the First Amendment.
“The way I look at it, it’s freedom of speech,” he said. “I don’t know how other people will take it.”
Read more at The Blaze. By Jason Howerton.
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Who else loves this? Gotta love Kentuckians!!
The thing he did wrong is he should have had a chicken leg in 1 hand and the watermelon in the other.
This is great.
God Bless you Danny why the big out cry when they did things like this to that weasel Bush nobody cared.Our so called non biased press said it was freedom of speech ,expression and everything else.
should have hung the "dummy" with a noose around his neck!!!