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Racism and the New York Fire Department

22.3.13

Racism and the New York Fire Department: (The Root) -- Late Monday, news broke that an aspiring New York firefighter would resign from the city's fire department, where he was working as an EMT, because of racially inflammatory tweets. Making the matter even more newsworthy and shocking is that the author of the offensive tweets is the son of the city's fire commissioner, Salvatore Cassano.

Joe Cassano's targets included Jews, blacks and "Obama lovers." His missives include the statement, "I like jews about as much as hitler," and during the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday he tweeted, "MLK could go kick rocks for all I care, but thanks for the time and a half today."

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