LEWISTOWN, MIFFLIN COUNTY --- Jim Tunall is the President of the Juniata River Valley Chamber of Commerce.  He gets tons of emails everyday.  This one stopped him in his tracks.

"We finally elect a black president, and the administrative assistant of the Mifflin County Regional police force sends out a disgusting poem written in slang,” Tunall said.

The poem puts a disgusting racist twist on the possibility of a black Santa clause.  It turns the visions of sugar plums into ashtrays, empty beer cans, and running from police.  People in Mifflin County can't believe it's going around the police department.

"What do they think of us? What comes from that person's mouth is how they perceive us.  My concern isn't so much about my generation but the generations to come," Pastor Bernie Carpenter said.  Carpenter is the pastor of the AME Church in Lewistown.

This isn't the first controversy for the department.  Some people are still mad over the police board firing former Chief Bill Herkert.

The board chairman said something will be done over this poem, but he wants to leave past decisions in the past.

"Obviously it involves the same department, but it's not the same.  We're talking about two different issues here,” John McCullough said.  McCullough is the Chairman of the Mifflin County Regional Police Board.

Pastor Carpenter said the worker who sent the email apologized to him personally.  Other people in Mifflin County believe that's not enough.

"We know what the charge is here.  The punishment should suit the crime," Tunall said.

The police board will discuss this mass email.  They'll decide what to do at an executive session next week.  Chairman McCullough said this poem disgusts him and it's unacceptable.