Florida Secretary of State Michael Ertel resigns after Halloween blackface photos emerge
Source: Tallahassee Democrat
Michael Ertel, the newly appointed Secretary of State of Gov. Ron DeSantis, has resigned after photos emerged of him posing as a Hurricane Katrina victim in blackface at a private Halloween party 14 years ago.
The photos obtained by the Tallahassee Democrat were shown to the Governor's Office on Thursday morning. Hours later it issued a statement.
"The governor accepted Secretary Ertel's resignation," the Governor's Office said.
The photo was taken in 2005, eight months after Ertel was appointed Seminole County supervisor of elections and two months after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.
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Midnight Writer
(21,856 posts)Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)Well done, MW!!
Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)None whatsoever
Fuck you
brooklynite
(95,006 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,756 posts)brooklynite
(95,006 posts)brooklynite
(95,006 posts)Ron DeSantis is off to a rip-roaring start
NCjack
(10,279 posts)BamaRefugee
(3,488 posts)LisaM
(27,863 posts)I can't believe all these photos of blackface are emerging. To my knowledge, no one I know has ever put on blackface. I wouldn't even have thought it was a thing! I thought it had gone the way of the dodo, and died out with acts like Amos'n'Andy as people realized how offensive it was. Even Spike Lee's movie back in 2000 was received negatively for its offensiveness.
And yet photo after photo of people wearing it come out. Yeah, I'm shocked.
murielm99
(30,785 posts)there was a boy who wanted to dress up as Michael Jordan for the Halloween party. It was an all-school party. Some of the kids went all out with the costumes.
The kid had the basketball part of his outfit. He wanted to do the blackface thing. Fortunately, his parents would not let him. He had to be a white Michael Jordan. He had just as good a time as everyone else.
LisaM
(27,863 posts)He was a blond-haired, blue-eyed Barry Bonds, no problem!
SunSeeker
(51,811 posts)How can they be so tone deaf and racist?
ffr
(22,681 posts)msongs
(67,502 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Grokenstein
(5,730 posts)It's just, like, school spirit or somethin', right?
bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)Stand and Fight
(7,480 posts)rockfordfile
(8,709 posts)He tried to mess with my vote in 2016. Didn't work nice try.
UpInArms
(51,295 posts)I just cannot, for the life of me, get into a mindset that could conceive of something this .... nasty magnitude.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Like at Covington school.
Should not be necessary, but