Shades of things to come

A New Smyrna Beach police officer is under investigation for forwarding a political e-mail with possible racial comments about presidential hopeful Barack Obama.

According to our news partners at the Daytona Beach News Journal, Commander Bill Drossman is now under internal investigation.

Drossman told the paper he got the e-mail from a friend and passed it on to other officers.

The e-mail reportedly contained comments from Obama's two books that appear to portray him as anti-white.

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WFTV Viewer Comments

Viewer comments submitted to WFTV by a member of the EAU Board of Directors 20 July 2008:

"Quoting Barack Obama's own words -- and suffering the slings and arrows for doing so --now constitutes a new social policy that can only be described as insolent and totalitarian.

The ONLY reason your two-bit news "team" thinks this story is news worthy is because the police department in question is all white, and we won't forget this.

IF the activist in your piece is working HE needs to be fired for exhibiting black supremacy and an intolerance for the truth. You, like he, are unemployable bigots."