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Police commissioner who used N-word to resign
WCVB ^ | 5/19/14 | WCVB

Posted on 05/19/2014 11:42:34 AM PDT by raccoonradio

WOLFEBORO, N.H. —A New Hampshire police commissioner who used a racial slur in describing President Barack Obama has verbally resigned to the chairman of the Wolfeboro Police Commission.

Robert Copeland, 82, had been facing intense pressure to resign after a resident complained about overhearing him use the N-word in a restaurant.

Copeland acknowledged that he used the slur but refused to apologize or step down.

Town and state officials -- along with some national figures, such as Mitt Romney, who has a home in Wolfeboro -- had condemned the remark, and more than 100 residents packed a Police Commission meeting last week to demand Copeland's resignation.

Copeland had been re-elected to a three-year term in March. Officials said resignation was the only way to get him out of office before the end of his term because the state has no recall provision for elected officials.

After stories about the slur spread nationwide, town officials and the police department were flooded with phone calls from people saying they would boycott the town, a popular summer destination, until Copeland resigned.


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KEYWORDS: nword; obama; robertcopeland
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1 posted on 05/19/2014 11:42:34 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

Six letter word beginning with NI-, describing Obama: NITWIT


2 posted on 05/19/2014 11:43:11 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

Soon to be banned:
“Nigger of Narcissus” by Joseph Conrad

“Woman is the Nigger of the World” by John Lennon

Mr Conrad and Mr Lennon cannot be reached for comment.


3 posted on 05/19/2014 11:45:07 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

Well, now all he had to do was rap it, and he’d have won and award!!!

http://weaselzippers.us/186516-black-college-debate-team-wins-national-championship-by-repeating-n-word-over-and-over-speaking-incomprehensibly/


4 posted on 05/19/2014 11:45:20 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: raccoonradio

Wiki: “In the United States, the novel was first published with the title The Children of the Sea: A Tale of the Forecastle, at the insistence by the publisher, Dodd, Mead and Company, that no one would buy or read a book with the word nigger in its title, not because the word was deemed offensive but that a book about a black man would not sell. In 2009, WordBridge Publishing published a new edition titled The N-Word of the Narcissus, which also excised the word nigger from the text. According to the publisher, the point was to get rid of the offensive word, which may have led readers to avoid the book, and make it more accessible. Though praised in some quarters, many others denounced the change as censorship.”


5 posted on 05/19/2014 11:46:45 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

82? Dude, go enjoy your grandkids. The game has passed you by.


6 posted on 05/19/2014 11:47:26 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: NFHale

Near the start of “Mugged” by Ann Coulter (I have it as an Audible audiobook) she mentions that the N-word is taboo, except when used by a black rapper or actor, “in which case the non-stop use of this epithet may earn you an Oscar,
a Grammy, an Emmy or an NAACP Image Award.” She goes on to mention Pulp Fiction, a movie in which the N- word is used
“approximately 5 billion times”.


7 posted on 05/19/2014 11:48:24 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

I still say he should have rapped it.

Then it’s “art”... or something, I suppose...


8 posted on 05/19/2014 11:52:26 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: raccoonradio

The “N” word?

Not a racial slur. A description of an attitude of being a useless person who is a parasite upon society. Lots of white “n” words out there.

Have a few black friends. None of them are “n” words. (Oh and if you are black and don’t live your life as a useless parasite you are called an Uncle Tom by the “n “ words.


9 posted on 05/19/2014 11:54:12 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: NFHale

When I work in “da hood” I hear the little kids calling each other that all the time.


10 posted on 05/19/2014 11:56:19 AM PDT by shelterguy
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To: raccoonradio

I don’t get it, why would he call a white guy a neegar?


11 posted on 05/19/2014 11:56:46 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Hitlery: Incarnation of evil.)
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To: raccoonradio
You know, not to be ageist but, if you have a police commissioner who is 82 you need to expect some degree of crotchetiness if not dementia. Much like Congress has going on now.
12 posted on 05/19/2014 11:57:20 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: raccoonradio
US Constitution - 28th Amendment (unwritten)

The right of citizens of the United States to never having their feelings hurt shall not be denied
or abridged by the United States, by any State, by any organization or any private individual.


13 posted on 05/19/2014 11:58:01 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The “fourth estate”has morphed into a 5th column)
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To: raccoonradio
Naggers. Everyone hates naggers.


14 posted on 05/19/2014 11:59:08 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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That usually gets pulled.


15 posted on 05/19/2014 11:59:57 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: raccoonradio

No politician Democrat or Republican was willing to stand up for the First Amendment.


16 posted on 05/19/2014 12:00:36 PM PDT by Oliviaforever
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To: raccoonradio

and with a repeated consonant.


17 posted on 05/19/2014 12:04:22 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (You can count my felonies by looking at my FR replies.)
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To: raccoonradio

Too bad. Evil is in control in today’s America. America, at one time, was a decent nation. Right is wrong and wrong is right. Mr. Copeland, enjoy the years you have left. Many will not be able to that in future America.


18 posted on 05/19/2014 12:05:25 PM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: shelterguy

They should get awards too...

Everybody should get an award ... just for showing up.

Learning how to write their name... get an award.

Learning how to cuss and swear ... well, THAT, my friend, deserves a Trophy...


19 posted on 05/19/2014 12:11:05 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale
Learning how to cuss and swear ... well, THAT, my friend, deserves a Trophy...

And beating a conservative to the ground, within an inch of death, lifetime street creds+ respek!

20 posted on 05/19/2014 12:17:23 PM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!!)
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