The president of a New York branch of the NAACP is in trouble for referring to a city councilman there as a “leprechaun” at the close of a public meeting, reports the Journal-News.
In an argument over school funding, Karen Edmonson of the NAACP used the term in an angry exchange with Yonkers City Council Majority Leader Liam McLaughlin.
McLaughlin and a colleague are demanding that Edmonson apologize and resign for the comment. "If anybody else made some type of similar remark, everybody would be calling for their head," he said.
Edmonson, however, doesn’t even think the comment was derogatory. "It's a Halloween term. It's nothing," she said.
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Good point, Joe! But, remember, we are dealing with a PC crowd. Racial remarks only count when they go in one direction. Otherwise, they are just a "Halloween" term.
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It's a racist term because she used it out of anger and she should be charged with a hate crime and jailed. This reverse discrimination don't fly around here - I tell it like it is and if they don't like it we can throw down, I don't care. It's uncalled for and pure BS.
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They should have stopped at "Congress shall make no law"
I'm surprised her logic wasn't that she (and. of course, no one else) is/was entitled to use any term she desired since she 'has been oppressed' all these years.
Yeah.....right!
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I think we sould all be glad it was'nt the otherway around. Think of the ranting. We'd have to listen to more of the "Oh, pity us, we be so down trodden" and like that!
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