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To: supremedoctrine
Remember the Black Gongresscritter who years ago made a big deal out of someone using the word “niggardly” ...

Actually it happened in the Washington DC City Government (1998) when a senior white staffer used the word and was beset by black colleagues and staffers as using a racist term. The newly elected Mayor Anthony Williams (non-white) succumbed to the pressure and fired the victim, David Howard.

The irony became much hotter when it turned out that Mr Howard was also a member of a victim group, being an out-of-the-closet homosexual and the most senior one in the DC City Government at that. Mr Howard was rehired shortly afterwards when a 'review' came to this conclusion; "The review also showed that one of our employees did misunderstand Mr Howard to have used a racial epithet.''

55 posted on 06/24/2018 3:54:21 PM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: SES1066

Thanks for that info....impressive in its details!


134 posted on 06/25/2018 8:08:14 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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