[Theodore R.]

I don’t call people by such terms, but I really think Dartez got a bum rap here. I think that “Buckwheat” was a term of endearment for her.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I’m not going to look a gift Buckwheat in the mouth, since the verbal gaffe put us a seat closer to majority control there. If they can nail us on bullcrap as “macaca”, we can get them on similar “mistakes.”

[boop]

She's a nice looking lady. Not what I expected. Most elected female dems are fugly.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

And I think Dartez was drinking, and her sodden mind stumbled over the first "black" name it encountered.

If "Buckwheat" is a term of endearment, does she use it with all elderly black women she knows? All elderly women? Or just all black women?

Such "terms of endearment" do not fly with me. I have a series of names; I am "Rose," or "Rose in RoseBear," or "Ms. Rose," or even "Mrs. Bear." "Buckwheat" is not acceptable.

Rose In RoseBear, using my husband's account.