by BLACK ENTERPRISE Editors
August 30, 2012
Brooklyn Politician Calls Neighborhood, “Negrohood” In Email
From the New York Daily News
A Brooklyn assembly candidate is apologizing after his campaign sent out a racially tinged email.
Ben Akselrod’s campaign sent out an email last week which called his Sheepshead Bay neighborhood, a “negrohood.”
The email claimed that his opponent had “allowed crime to go up over 50% in our negrohood so far this year.â€
Akselrod apologized for what he called a “typo.”
Read more at the New York Daily News