The head of the Republican party in Minnesota is apologizing after one of the GOP's district branches tweeted about a "negro problem." The tweet, sent out by the state's 7th Congressional District GOP on Sunday, was a response to the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party's call to make joblessness and poverty in the black community part of a proposed legislative special session, the Star Tribune reported. "MN #DFL now propose a 'special session' to deal with their self-created '#negroproblem,'" the tweet said. It has since been deleted, but images of the tweet are still being circulated on social media. The DFL -- the state's affiliate of the Democratic Party -- immediately condemned the remarks. "You don’t have to look far to find ignorant hate speech masquerading as acceptable party messaging," DFL Chairman Ken Martin said in a statement.