A California school board president has resigned amid outrage over racist and sexist slurs his wife posted about Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
Former Google executive Jon Venverloh resigned from the Las Lomitas Elementary School District in the San Francisco Bay Area on Sunday — while distancing himself from the “reprehensible views” his wife, Mehridith Philips Venverloh, had tweeted hours earlier.
In one disturbing post, she dismissed Harris’ place in history as both the first black vice president as well as the first female one.
“All she needs to be qualified is a black p—y! No brain needed!” Philips Venverloh wrote on her Twitter account, which has since been deleted.
Another post suggested that Harris had used sex to “whore” her way to her history-making position, with other posts also attacking the LGBTQ community.
One local mom, Brianna Caldwell, told KGO that it was like was “watching systemic racism happening, on display in my own children’s school in our backyard.”
“I almost vomited, then I cried a little bit and then I was just shaking and I was so angry,” Caldwell told the station.
Philips Venverloh’s husband resigned from the school board after a petition was signed by more than 100 people in just hours, according to the Mercury News.
Women have been using sex to get ahead since there were women. Why be surprised now?
Saying it in a personal attack online is another matter.