Activists demand DNC member’s resignation after ‘colored people’ remark

[WingNot]

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had no comment on Terrie Rizzo's comment.

By MARC CAPUTO 04/04/2018 05:03 AM EDT
MIAMI — A Florida Democratic National Committee member is resisting a chorus of resignation calls from African-American activists and party officials — including his own wife — after he referred to blacks as “colored people.”

DNC member John Parker, a Democratic state committee member from Duval County, told POLITICO he simply mangled the phrase “people of color” and that he didn’t mean to say “colored people” at a Jan. 22 party meeting at a Jacksonville restaurant.

He later apologized for his words, but not before igniting a divisive election-year controversy that distracts from what Democrats say should be a focus on President Donald Trump’s bigotry.

The problem, local activists say, is that Parker’s remark was not simply an errant remark. Diallo-Sekou Seabrooks, an African-American who said he heard the remarks at the Burrito Gallery restaurant after a Democratic meeting, told First Coast News that Parker “freely used” the phrase, “colored people,” at the event and that he was concerned that Jacksonville would become like Atlanta, a city with a majority-black government.

"Why would you still think that 'colored' was cool? Because to me, it's a Jim Crow terminology and it's unacceptable," Seabrooks told the station.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/04/florida-dnc-race-remark-499038

[XenaLee]

Translation:  Let's make all whiteys walk on eggshells re: what they refer to us AAs as.... while we are free to use the "N" word and any and all slurs against any 'other' race, especially whiteys, that we please.  Cuz we're special.  The DemocRats have been telling us that for decades, so it must be so!

[Smokin Joe]

Translation:  Let's make all whiteys walk on eggshells re: what they refer to us AAs as.... while we are free to use the "N" word and any and all slurs against any 'other' race, especially whiteys, that we please.  Cuz we're special.  The DemocRats have been telling us that for decades, so it must be so!

This has been so since the term fell from acceptability during late 60s at least. "Negro" was still acceptable then, (like the United Negro College Fund), but I guess even that has fallen into disfavor.

The terminology gambit was often used to start fights during the race riots when I was in High School, because it didn't matter what answer was given to the question of "What am I?": it was wrong, and cause for physical conflict. The eventual result was that punches were often thrown simultaneously with epithets and no attempt made to respond civilly to such queries.

I am only amused because the purveyors of identity politics are being hoist on their own petard.

 

[Applewood]

I like to watch old TV shows from the 50s and 60s.  Many of them used the words "colored" and "Negro."  It was all acceptable back then.  But I notice now that some  classic TV stations, when showing these old TV series, will edit out these words from the dialog.  It's pretty sad actually. 

I read somewhere not long ago that all white people are racist merely because we are white.  So in the view of these radicals, we have no hope of "redemption" in their eyes, regardless of what we say or do.

These days, I've stopped giving a damm.  If what I say or do offends you, tough.  I refuse to apologize or feel guilty.

[WingNot]

These days, I've stopped giving a damm.  If what I say or do offends you, tough.  I refuse to apologize or feel guilty.

Yep.  Damned if you ... damned if you don't.  So IDC anymore.