‘Don’t Have Anything Else to Do!’: Wyoming GOP Vice Chairman Faces Backlash Over Racist Meme Mocking Barack Obama, Dismisses Critics As Oversensitive’ In Blatant Flip-Off

The vice chair of the Republican Party in Wyoming is facing backlash over a racist social media post promoting harmful stereotypes about Black people that he said was nothing more than a joke. According to the Cowboy State Daily, David Holland is now the center of some political controversy in his state after sharing a Facebook post that featured a photo of former president Barack Obama and incoming president Donald Trump at Jimmy Carter’s funeral last week. The caption written above the picture reads, “Do you realize, by the time I’m sworn in I’m going to be a felon that worked at McDonald’s? I’m blacker than you.” Wyoming GOP Vice Chair David Holland (Photo: Facebook/David Holland) The post has since attracted negative reactions from politicians on both sides of the aisle, including Wyoming Democratic Party Chair Joe Barbuto. “Is this why the Wyoming GOP has been so desperate to eliminate DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) initiatives — so their leaders could openly engage in casual racism?” Barbuto questioned. “Wyoming deserves better than this hateful garbage.” Wyoming Republican Gail Symons, who ran for the state House of Representatives last year, expressed similar sentiments as Barbuto, calling the post “overtly racist.” “I don’t...