Wolfeboro Police Commissioner Robert Copeland acknowledged using the slur in an email to fellow police commissioners this week.
“I believe I did use the ‘N’ word in reference to the current occupant of the Whitehouse,” Copeland said in the email. “For this, I do not apologize — he meets and exceeds my criteria for such.”
I thought racism didn’t exist anymore? Isn’t that why we can roll back voting rights protections? I guess this guy didn’t get the memo.
The real story is not that Mitt Romney has publicly condemned him, any decent American would respond in like. The real story is that maybe this country still has racism running through its veins. Sometimes its blatant, and sometimes it’s just so ingrained we can’t see it.
The Congress gave Obama exactly what he asked for in FY2013 for the VA and even more for longterm FY2014-FY2022 expenditures. And it looks like the total may go up by a couple of billion for the FY2014 budget.
Let me start laughing at YOU, Madam. Jay Carney told the WH press corps that Obama only learned about the VA scandals through media reports. He also said Gen. Shinseki learned about them the same way. As I recall, that is the same way Obama claimed to have heard about the almost total ACA website failure. Doggone. This ship of state seems to have a captain who is kept out of the loop by his own crew!
Sarcasm escapes you?
I think its time to get back to topic.
I am not going to allow any more disrespect to go on here about the President, regardless of who he or she is. Elena will back me up.
There are plenty of other blogs that allow for vile disrespect to be shown to people in office.
This thread is about a police commissioner using the N word at the president. It didn’t call for an indictment over every breath the man has ever drawn.
You are welcome here, but stick to topic please.
After reading all this, I feel like I need a shower, to be perfectly honest.
Wolverine, I am laughing at you because you are going to be miserable for the next two years with your nemesis in the White House. No, sarcasm doesn’t escape me and neither do other things, if you get my drift.
To get things back on the topic of this thread…
Old white guy from Wolfeboro (where in the hell is that by the way?) uses ‘N’ word…. why is this news again? And what does it have to do with voter ID laws?
I believe Elena clearly led the segue from the commissioner to evidence that racism is still accepted practice in this country.
It seems to me that the real story was that no one backed this old crank’s right to racially charged language, the town united against him, and he resigned.
What about the way black conservatives are treated by liberals (both black and white)? For some reason that’s never talked about much.
http://twitchy.com/2014/05/20/white-leftist-to-black-conservative-my-pleasure-house-n-gger-youll-do-anything-fo-massa/
I think Jack that actually it’s not acceptable to use terms like “Uncle Tom, “House n-word”, etc … I think if a black or white liberal police commissioner or public official did that, it would be unacceptable also.
I agree 100% Rick, I’m just a little confused as to why this old white guy from some town that nobody has ever heard of gets so much attention. Meanwhile, nobody says much when elected officials sitting in congress call black conservatives all sorts of racist names.
Just two weeks or so ago Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) not only called Clarence Thomas an “Uncle Tom” but then doubled down on it when asked about it.
Recently Rep. James Clyburn said that Sen. Tim Scott “doesn’t vote according to the color of his skin”.
There are many, many other examples but those are just two recent ones I can think of. Instead of discussing any of those we are talking about an old white guy that nobody has ever heard of from some town nobody has ever heard of using the N word.
I m not sure those are racist remarks. Where is the context? I would say calling Clarence Thomas an “Uncle Tom” in public probably isn’t very polite. Maybe those comments are best kept in the privacy of one’s own home, which we know isn’t particularly private either.
The commissioner story was just a springboard for discussion. I doubt if anyone really cares what he does or says. It is an example, however, that many people are unapologetically prejudiced and that many people have bad feelings about the president and some of those feelings have racial overtones and probably racial roots.
I think we actually did talk about Bennie Thompson in one of these threads. But I take your point and I tend to agree with you.
@middleman
“Most Americans would like their leaders to LEAD, and to address the issues affecting our country, like immigration reform, infrastructure jobs, unemployment compensation, minimum wage, etc. ”
Too bad that the President isn’t leading
Immigration reform by Presidential decree is wrong. Infrastructure jobs? You mean those non-existent shovel ready jobs? Unemployment compensation? You mean…99 weeks isn’t enough? Minimum wage…..well, if you want to kill MORE unskilled job opportunities….
Cargo, you’re so far down the GOP talking point rat-hole, I don’t think anyone can help you anymore. But I’ll make a final try.
1. There is NO data to back up your assertion that raising the minimum wage kills jobs. If industry would do the right thing, this wouldn’t be be necessary. No one working full-time in this country should have to rely on welfare to help them get by.
2. 99 weeks ISN’T enough. There are families and children that need this support.
3. The GOP (house, mainly) has blocked all infrastructure bills. This would stimulate the economy, begin to fix the huge backlog of projects, provide jobs, and will never be cheaper to finance. It’s idiotic NOT to do it.
4. Finally, even you must see how silly it is to criticize the president for using his power to enact reforms blocked by the do-nothing congress when the American public is overwhelmingly behind his reforms.
This congress will go down in history as the worst of all time.
@Wolve
I actually agree with Wolve that this administration sure seems to be surprised a lot by what’s happening in THEIR government. It’s getting a little old…
I want to make a point here that most black people – again, I know a few – don’t use terms like “Uncle Tom” to describe people any more than white people use the n-word. It’s deliberately provocative language that does nothing but stereotype.
I’ve had a lot of conversations about Clarence Thomas with black people and with liberal people. Nobody uses charged terms like “Uncle Tom” or house n-word. I see those things in print, by people trying to get a charge out of other people. But it’s not common parlance.
I know quite a few people who think nothing of using racially charged words. I know any equal number of people who go overboard in the other direction. My grandson thinks you are being racist if you notice that someone isn’t white, even in the most benign of circumstances.
Go figure.
Don’t get me wrong, they think he’s got issues with his own skin, and they think he jumps to prove himself to his patrons. But they don’t express it with those loaded terms.
@middleman
Right…..that’s why self serve check out is coming to a McDonald’s near you. No data. Oh…wait. Look! Data: http://nebula.wsimg.com/faf44fea2172ad008b46a64835ae2492?AccessKeyId=D2418B43C2D698C15401&disposition=0&alloworigin=1
More: http://www.forbes.com/sites/williamdunkelberg/2012/12/31/why-raising-the-minimum-wage-kills-jobs/
But lets go with your premise.
Raise the minimum wage so that a family can be supported. That IS what you are saying. So, ho many? Let’s go with the standard two parents and two children.
Poverty level is $23850. To make that….one must earn about $12 per hour.
So…to prevent your scenario…they would have to be making much greater than $12 per hour.
So lets make them middle class and pay the $25 per hour. I mean…. just think of the jobs being created! And poverty would be cured. Why not? If an arbitrary raise in the minimum wage is so beneficial regardless of the productivity of the employee, why not raise it that high?
And since you want to vastly increase unemployment past its original purpose, why not be honest and call it the “dole?”
And if you believe that the GOP is blocking infrastructure projects, I’d love to see your list. You do remember that the Democrats were in charge when the “shovel ready” projects were supposed to be started…..and yet….that money was completely spent without a single project being started and the President admitted that there were no projects. Nothing prevented the government from working on them then.
Its not silly to criticize a President for illegally changing actual law or “enacting law” through executive orders. He does not have that authority…no matter how much you wish that he did.
Are you saying that no president can issue an executive order or just THIS president?
Cargo, from last to first:
The president obviously has the authority to do what he’s doing with executive orders, no matter how much you wish he didn’t.
The GOP has blocked infrastructure bills, or included non-related stuff in that isn’t acceptable to the “other” 60% of the country. “Not a single project” was started by the stimulus program (what I assume you refer to as “shovel ready”)? How about the Prince William Parkway widening between Old Bridge Road and Hoadly Road? There was a big sign up there identifying it as such.
I won’t address the “dole” comment as it’s not worthy of a response.
As for minimum wage hikes not leading to employment loss:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/harold-meyerson-a-higher-minimum-wage-may-actually-boost-job-creation/2014/05/21/463bd80e-e112-11e3-9743-bb9b59cde7b9_story.html
http://www.nber.org/papers/w4509
So it’s wrong, wrong, wrong, old friend…
@Moon-howler
I’m saying that executive orders are limited in authority. His use to amend the ACA is illegal.
@Cargo
Sez who? YOU might want it to be illegal. Doesn’t make it so.
@middleman
From first to last…
The president does NOT obviously have the authority to do so. If it is…point it out.
I’m sorry…I forgot about that project. I was taking the President at his word that it turned out that there were no shovel ready projects. So, lets amend my statement. The vast majority of the stimulus did nothing.
You won’t address the “dole” comment because its accurate.
And since we have competing authorities…I guess we must both be wrong or right.
But as I said above…..let’s cure poverty and unemployment. By your logic…. raising the wage to $25 per hour should do it. I mean….you don’t want to raise the minimum wage and leave people in poverty…..do you?
In the mean time…raise everyone else’s salaries……why not? Just think of the boost to the economy! Mandate that everyone’s salary must be doubled!
Minimum wage needs to go up. I think doubling it might not be such a good idea, ya think?
How about a couple dollars. Maybe it is time to also get those in food service to make minimum wage rather than relying solely on tips.
@Moon-howler
You might not get those in food service to agree if they are making more than minimum wage.
Food service generally pays 2 something an hour. Places like Starbucks pay a salary.
I obviously meant at LEAST minimum wage.
Just last week, I saw a couple who didn’t look like they were down and out. In fact, they appeared to be meeting for lunch break. They ran their server ragged. They wanted this, they wanted that. He was extremely accommodating. I always ask for him when I go in to that Ruby Tuesdays.
These sorry cheap-asses left him a $2 tip after they had treated him like a slave. There was nothing wrong with the service. He treated them like royalty. It happens all too often in the restaurant industry.
A bartender can punish cheap-asses. Servers, not so much.