Former Georgia city official drops N-word while pushing for Confederate History Month
Griffin, Georgia, a small city about 38 miles south of Atlanta, is proud of its Southern heritage.
Every year since at least 2010, the city has passed a proclamation designating April as Confederate History Month, city commissioner Douglas Hollberg told CNN. It's not an unusual occurrence in the South, where Confederate Memorial Day is still officially and unofficially observed in a handful of places.
But when the issue came up again at a recent Griffin city meeting, things did not go well.
A former city commissioner, speaking out as a resident in favor of the proclamation, used a racial slur three times -- offending an African-American member of the commission who opposed the measure.
And now a video of the meeting, including the exchange between the two men, has blown up online -- a reminder of the way racism continues to be on display in the South at a time when many places are removing Confederate memorials from public view.
Griffin's 23,000 residents are split roughly equally between whites and blacks, according to census data.
The March 27 meeting went quickly downhill after former city commissioner Larry Johnson, who is white, got up to speak during the public comments section. Addressing his comments mostly to current city commissioner Rodney McCord, who is black, Johnson began talking about the city's history.
"There were white folks. There were black folks when I was growing up," Johnson said. "There was white trash — my family. There was n-----town. I lived next to n-----town."
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They don't even try to hide their racism now that Trump is in the Whitehouse
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