EDISON – Campaign signs for Dr. Sudhanshu Prasad, a town councilman running for mayor, were defaced with racist graffiti over the weekend, his campaign said. “We strongly denounce these deplorable acts,” Prasad and his running mates on the town council slate said in a statement released Monday. “These are cowardly acts of bigotry which have no place in the Township of Edison, nor are they representative of the beliefs and hearts of the good citizens of Edison.” With red spray-paint, the vandal or vandals wrote, “Never in Edison!” on one side of the sign on Cherry Street, and on the other side wrote “DOTHEAD,” a racist term for Hindus. Prasad is a Hindu and took his oath of office for town council on the Bhagavad Gita. Someone also spray-painted a symbol that the campaign said resembles a swastika, which was appropriated by the Nazis and is used today by white supremacists. (It should also be noted that the swastika is a symbol of Hinduism, long before its Nazi associations took hold. In Sanskrit, it is an affirmation of the goodness in life.)
Posted on: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 06:53:51 +0000
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