LOS ANGELES — Racist Facebook posts a school board candidate’s husband made more than a decade ago — including one referring to then-President Barack Obama as a “plantation house boy” — have shaken up a school board election in the Antelope Valley, reviving tensions in a district where the educational system’s battles have taken on racial overtones in recent years.
Despite earlier reporting that she would be withdrawing from the race, candidate Susan Strom told the Los Angeles Times she plans to stay in the running and dismissed the affair as a political attack.
The comments were made during an argument Strom — who is running for a seat on the Antelope Valley Union High School District Board of Trustees — and her husband, Doug, had with her nephew on Facebook in 2011. Along with the comment about Obama, Doug Strom also called Muslims “muzzys.”
