Posted on 01/16/2017 11:07:01 AM PST by equaviator
Warren Mayor Jim Fouts is once again under scrutiny after more offensive audio recordings were released by the independent journalist website Motor City Muckraker which are alleged to be of the mayor making disparaging comments about African American people and elderly women.
The latest four recordings were obtained and released by Motor City Muckraker on Monday. In one of the recordings, a voice compares Black people to chimpanzees. In another recording, the voice ridicules a 60-year-old woman, calling her a "hag." You can listen to one of the recordings below. You can listen to the others on Motor City Muckraker. Click here to hear them all.
These recordings have not been authenticated by FOX 2. Mayor Fouts is expected to be available at an Martin Luther King Jr. day event in Warren where he is announcing a diversity coordinator for the city.
Leaked audio attributed to Warren Mayor Jim Fouts compares black people to chimps Just before the event was to begin, FOX 2's Amy Lange confronted Fouts. He said he would not comment on the recordings.
Below are edited transcripts from the recordings:
"You know, Blacks do look like chimpanzees. I was watching this Black woman with her daughter and they looked like two chimps. Their mouths were elongated up, duck-ish like," one of the recordings says.
"I remember this one kid in my class, I told you, some years ago he said - we were at a party store - he says my dad had rules: only two N****** at a time," another recording says.
"You think I want to date a f****** 60-year-old hag? F*** that s***. I'm not interested in any old ugly hag. I think after a certain age, they're all dried up, washed up, burned up," another recording says.
"They are p****** when they are young, and when they get older, they're just mean, hateful dried-up c****," he allegedly said.
Listen to the first recording for yourself in the embed below, courtesy of the Motor City Muckracer (n/a).
The other recordings have been deemed unfit to publish on our site. CLICK HERE
http://motorcitymuckraker.com/2017/01/16/audio-mayor-fouts-compares-black-people-chimps-ridicules-women/
to hear them on the Muckraker's site.
FOX 2 has placed a call to the mayor's office, seeking response. We have not heard back from the office.
Last month, the mayor was alleged to have been caught on tape saying disparaging things about mentally challenged people.
In those recordings, a voice says, "Tonight I am going to meet a bunch of retards. Tonight is retard night." In a second recording, a voice that sounds like Fouts says, "Fine I guess, what good are they, they are dysfunctional human beings. They are not even human beings."
Fouts has repeatedly denied saying those comments, and has said the tapes are phony and were released by Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel. Many have called for Fouts's resignation, and he was fired from his weekly radio show on 910AM.
Fouts has not yet responded to the audio recordings released.
This is a developing story. Stay with FOX 2 for updates.
Warren, MI is where the General Motors Technical Center is. Also, the US Army Tank Automotive Command has its HQ there. Warren was a ‘uge part of the Arsenal of Democracy. Not so much anymore though.
The term “racism” obviously gets thrown around way, way too loosely these days.
However, comparing black people to chimpanzees certainly fills the bill.
A dead ringer for Harry Reid.
Looks alot like Alan Creepy Colmes
He appears to be related to one Harry “I DO STUFF NO ONE ELSE WILL” Reid. Beady eyes. Sallow carcass. Nasty persona.
“I thought he was a Bernie supporter.”
In March 2016, Mayor Jim Fouts claims he was asked by security at the Democratic Presidential Debate in Flint, Michigan to refrain from showing excessive enthusiasm for Bernie Sanders, after which Mayor Fouts returned to his seat and took extra care to not “offend” anyone at The Democratic debate with his “enthusiasm.” Top DNC officials, including the chair, have pledged neutrality throughout the primary process, saying that the party takes no sides.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Fouts
I've been compared to a worm and a dung beetle but I ignore characterizations from my ex-wife.
He s the mayor of Detroit? That is a large decaying half abandoned Northern city. How could he be anything but Democrat? How is it he is even white? Is he?
Sounds like he needs to go. What an ass.
Combs looks like a ladies private parts eating a bunch of lemons
Warren borders Detroit on the NE side.
You have to get out much farther from 8-Mile before
you start finding Republicans.
I didn’t know what he looked like, so I did a double take when I saw this. May he have an exercise equipment accident too.
No arguing with that.
I wonder if this guy drinks a lot, too.
In this year's election cycle, he was an enthusiastic supporter of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, but later complained about how the party treated him at a Democratic debate in Flint in February and that he didn't get to introduce Clinton when she gave a speech in Warren in August.
Wikipedia lists him as an Independent.
“Well, I’ve been compared to a billy goat, so chimp would be a step up for me.;-) “
So now it’s not nice to call a spade a spade? (sarc)
He’s a big Bernie Sanders supporter.
If these are truly him, what a disgusting POS this guy is.
Wow! Another Conehead!
I do, he's a jerk. With that being said, unless the individual who recorded those conversations comes forward and identifies himself and the day, time and locations those recordings were made, I'm not believing it.
Nobody, regardless of their political party, should be subjected to this kind of harassment.......
I’ve been called pond scum before. Do I win?
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