house boy

Racist Facebook posts a school board candidate’s husband made more than a decade ago — including one referring to then-President Barack Obama as a “plantation house boy” — have shaken up a school board election in the Antelope Valley, reviving tensions in a district where the educational system’s battles have taken on racial overtones in recent years.

He got a job as a house boy for a family in the gated residential community Broadmoor in Seattle, saved his money, started a family and focused on his American dream.

He also made visits to the local Ronald McDonald House, Boy and Girls Clubs and visited elementary classrooms to read with children.

If I asked Dad, he’d say, “You live in this house, boy?”

“I was working as a house boy in a local gambling joint, serving coffee for the guys playing cards,” he recalled.