The Hawk Eye
The president of the Black Leadership Council on Monday called on the Burlington City Council to sever ties with a local bank over a racist Facebook post made in November by one of the bank's vice presidents.
Addressing city council during its regular meeting, the Rev. Rob Brown, pastor of the Hope Temple Christian Church and president of the 16-member council that formed about two months ago in the hopes of making Burlington a better community for their children, expressed his frustration over the city's continued business with Farmers & Merchants Bank & Trust after one of the bank's vice presidents, Lisa Walsh, called Vice President-elect Kamala Harris a "minority slut" in a Facebook post in early November.