Posted on 04/04/2018 12:49:52 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Black activists aren’t satisfied with Florida Democratic National Committee (DNC) member John Parker’s explanation that he meant to say “people of color” but used the expression “colored people” instead. They want him to resign.
Parker told Politico that he was trying to say “people of color” but didn’t get it right. Parker’s own wife has joined the chorus of African-Americans and Democratic officials who say the DNC committeeman from Duval County, Florida, needs to step aside.
Parker made the remarks on Jan. 22 while speaking at a party meeting in Jacksonville and apologized after the initial uproar from those present at the Burrito Gallery restaurant, where he was holding forth.
“Why would you still think that ‘colored’ was cool? Because to me it’s a Jim Crow terminology and it’s unacceptable,” Diallo-Sekou Seabrooks told First Coast News.
Some in the black community say Parker’s choice of words represent a pattern.
At the now infamous Burrito meeting, his critics claim he also bemoaned the affects of racial integration while others accuse him of using the description “mayor’s mammy” and calling the Working People Caucus the “Poor Black People Working Caucus.”
When first challenged for his colored people remarks, Parker told Politico that it was all a misunderstanding.
“I misspoke and used the term colored people when I meant people of color,” Parker said. He also denied allegations that he had used pejorative terms for blacks in the past, insisting the comments “did not happen.”
"Colored" was routinely used by everyone when I was in parts of Florida, Georgia and Alabama. I never connoted a racial slur from it. Racism/bigotry is a state of mind from anyone no matter what the skin color or racial makeup.
If the DNC and Left lost the race card, they would lose most of their power and influence.
“I love it when the Left eat their own” - a practice the GOP has mastered.
They thrive on identity politics and victimhood and divisiveness, and those exploded under Obama.
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