Despicable.

A county NAACP chapter in northern Alabama is calling for the resignation of a school board member and local Republican Party chairman, who says his sharing on social media of a GOP elephant logo that included KKK imagery was unintended.

The Facebook page of the Lawrence County Republican Party had included in one of its posts an image that shows a representation of a GOP elephant with three Klansmen with hoods symbolized in the legs of the logo. The image originally appeared in a Mother Jones article from 2020 entitled, "The Republican Party is Racist and Soulless."

Shanon Terry, the new chairman of the county party who said he authored the post, is a member of the county school board. The Lawrence County NAACP said in a statement that his credibility on the board "has been tainted" following the post.

"We come here today to ask Shanon Terry, we are demanding your resignation," Lawrence County NAACP President J.E. Turnbore said at a press conference on Friday. "We do not want you to govern over our children."

The county party called the sharing of the image a mistake and apologized on Facebook in a post apparently signed by Terry, according to media reports.

"I would like to offer a deep and sincere apology for a picture that temporarily appeared on this page last night. A Google search picture of a GOP elephant was used and later found to have hidden images that do not represent the views or beliefs of the Lawrence County Republican Party," the post said.

[cnn.com]