A postcard former President Bill Clinton sent to his grandmother in 1966 is coming back to bite him in the butt.
Under the title, “Hope, Arkansas – Home of the World’s Largest Watermelon,” there’s a grinning Black young’n buffing a huge melon, the kind of image that riles many African Americans.
According to the New York Post's Page Six, while Clinton was a sophomore at Georgetown University, he wrote, "Dear Mammaw, Thought I would send you one of your cards just to prove I'm using them! My tests are over and I'm just starting the second term. Hope you are well and happy . . . Love, Bill."
Online auction house rrauction.com will be selling the postcard Wednesday. The auction house calls it "a throwback to the outrageously broad portrayals of African-Americans of a century earlier."
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