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NAACP slams pol's racist e-mail

Bill Egbert and Mike Oates New York Daily News 03/01/2009 19:46
NAACP slams pol's racist e-mail - USA - New York - NYC - politics - Staten Island


A political appointee to the Staten Island Community Education Council forwarded a racist e-mail to dozens of people, angering officials with the local NAACP.



Salvatore Ballarino admitted sending an e-mail featuring photos from the last presidential debate with voice balloons added to suggest a conversation laden with racist jokes.

"It was a political cartoon," Ballarino said. "It was a joke, and I treated it as such."

Ballarino - who was appointed by Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro - said he didn't create the e-mail.

"I forwarded it and I deleted it, and that is as far as it goes," said Ballarino, who sent the e-mail to 29 people on Jan.4.


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