Heh. I guess it could be worse. In Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shuttered a newspaper for putting Obama on the cover.
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Nope, that river runs through the heartland of America, too.
While America celebrates Barack Obama’s election victory, if not for political reasons than at least for the transformation in racial equality that it represents, certain stubborn pockets of the nation remain resistant.
First we have Sapulpa, OK, where the local newspaper refused to cover Obama’s victory:
The Sapulpa Daily Herald did not report that Barack Obama won the Presidential election in its Wednesday edition.
One paragraph on the front page did report the majority of Creek County voted for McCain.
"This is not only national, but it's also local. And this is our President; he's President of Sapulpa also," said Scott Gordon.
More than a dozen protesters stood in front of the Herald's downtown office Friday morning to get answers from publisher Darren Sumner.
Lest you think this is an isolated incident, my mother-in-law who lives in rural Western Kentucky reports that their local paper did not report on who won the presidential election, either. I’d say a lot of small town newspapers, steeped in denial, just couldn’t bring themselves to report the news.
It’s even worse a little further south in Mississippi, where teachers in Puckett and Pearl won’t even let students mention the president-elect’s name.
You guys do know that whether you talk about it or not, Barack Obama is still the president-elect, right?
