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Mayor apologizes for blackface drag skit

Posted on October 5, 2008 
Filed Under 365Gay, News

(Arkansas City, Kansas) The mayor of a Kansas town appeared in blackface as part of a drag-queen beauty contest but apologized after a meeting with NAACP officials.

Arkansas City Mayor Mel Kuhn won the fundraiser, in which he appeared in dark makeup and used a vulgar reference to female genitalia as …

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