Posted on 11/13/2007 4:45:40 AM PST by shove_it
HOUMA, La. - A white state lawmaker in a runoff election called a black civil-rights veteran who had helped her campaign "Buckwheat," prompting the NAACP to urge voters to kick her out of office.
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Rep. Carla Blanchard Dartez, a Democrat, acknowledged that she ended a Thursday night conversation with Hazel Boykin by saying, "Talk to you later, Buckwheat." Dartez had been thanking Boykin for driving voters to the polls.
Buckwheat, a black child character in the "Little Rascals" comedies of the 1930s and '40s, is viewed as a racial stereotype.
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Get over it. I am quite tired of hearing this stuff. If two people haven’t learned by now to act like adults; then let them have at it. It’s of no interest to me.
I guess “OOOO Tay Pankie” is out also?
I noticed that photos of the insulted woman are hard to come by to see if this could simply have been a case of mistaken identity....
(/sarcsm)
I couldn't agree more. Pretty soon, people will just stop speaking.
John Peter Zenger
Peter Zenger and
Freedom of the Press
In the latter part of 1733 John Peter Zenger began publishing a newspaper in New York to voice opposition to the onerous policies of newly appointed colonial governor William Cosby.
Finally, Cosby issued a proclamation condemning the newspaper’s “divers scandalous, virulent, false and seditious reflections.” On Sunday, November 17, 1734 Zenger was arrested and charged with seditious libel.
After more than eight months in prison and after the arguments for both sides were finished, the jury was retired, only to return shortly with a verdict of not guilty.
LOL. Maybe they will start thinking.
If this was a Republican who had done this it would be ALL over the news-it would lead on ABC, NBC and CBS. Sharpton and Jackson would be down there demanding an apology and a resignation.
Sounds to me like she was joking, like she thought she knew him well enough to say something like that. We all say things to our friends in jest that we wouldn’t say to strangers. She is a Democrat so perhaps I am wrong but all of this PC crap, no matter who it is directed at, is simply wrong and a violation of the spirit of our constitution.
Gosh - think they would have been upset if she used another black stereotype and called her worker “Jesse”?
Has Ms. Boykin objected? I suggest the NAACP mind their own darn business.
I cannot find any photos of civil rights worker Hazel Boykin
or a local NAACP Chapter President in New Hampshire
That might be her son. She was a 60s activist, so he’s about the right age.
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