Clinton postcard might come back to haunt him

A racially insensitive moment from former US president Bill Clinton's past is coming back to haunt him. It is a postcard that he had sent his grandmother Edith Cassidy in 1966. The card depicts a black youth eagerly polishing a huge watermelon titled, 'Hope, Arkansas - Home of the World's Largest Watermelon'. Pagesix.com reports that he was just 19 then and 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." An auction house, which is selling it, calls it "a throwback to the outrageously broad portrayals of African-Americans of a century earlier". It says Clinton wrote it "in the midst of the most active civil-rights movement in American history" and would go on to become "one of the greatest champions of racial minorities among modern American presidents".