Karl Eversmeyer, a GOP candidate running for township committee in Westampton, says the photos were taken out of context and that he will not 'give in' to Democrats' demands.
A Republican politician from New Jersey is the latest to find himself embroiled in a blackface controversy after pictures of him dressed up as Kanye West for a Halloween party emerged.
"It is being demanded that I drop out of the race over a Halloween costume in 2009 when I dressed up as Kanye West," Eversmeyer wrote in a public statement on Facebook. Former Mayor Carolyn Chang and incumbent Westampton township committeeman Tony De Silva, both Democrats, also released statements alongside the photos, branding them as"racist" and"disgusting"."What I saw in those photos is nothing short of sickening," said Chang, who is a past president of the Association of Black Women Lawyers of New Jersey.
"I am aware of the pictures that are being circulated and I find them disgusting and highly offensive," Wisniewski said, reported the"As mayor of a very diverse community and an equally diverse governing body, I'll be the first to say that these types of actions are not welcome in Westampton. He said he and his wife dressed up as Kanye West and Taylor Swift for a friend's Halloween party following the infamous scandal between the rapper and the pop star at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. The Halloween party was one month after the scandal.
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