Gov. Ricketts (Nebraska) apologizes after calling black leaders in meeting 'you people'

[WhiskeyGrinder]

https://www.omaha.com/news/local/gov-ricketts-apologizes-after-calling-black-leaders-in-meeting-you-people/article_073cffcb-4f9c-5d72-aedb-a00a7da43ba5.html

A black pastor at a North Omaha Baptist church says he walked out of a Monday meeting with city leaders and Gov. Pete Ricketts after the governor told black leaders, “The problem I have with you people.”

Ricketts, in a statement, said he apologized: “I chose my words poorly, and apologized when it became apparent that I had caused offense.”

In a video he posted online, Pastor Jarrod Parker of St. Mark Baptist Church said he was invited to the meeting with Ricketts, Mayor Jean Stothert and Police Chief Todd Schmaderer, along with black pastors and black leaders. The group discussed the killing of James Scurlock, and Parker said he “put context to the issues surrounding the systematic racism that produced it.”

Then in the video, Parker said, “Pete Ricketts said, ‘The problem I have with you people.’ … He called black pastors and black leaders in Omaha, ‘You people.’ ”

[guillaumeb]

1. Ricketts said what was in his heart.

Another racist.

[malaise]

4. That effin' simple

slipped out

[guillaumeb]

5. True.

They can pretend, but the truth in their hearts always slips out.

[Celerity]

2. Ricketts The Racist

[uponit7771]

3. Ricketts was being honest, he'd get more respect not apologizing for what he really meant

[kmla]

6. He must have been channeling Ross Perot.

[hatrack]

7. Are some of his best friends . . . . well, you know . . .

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Amazing how Billionaire Family Son's

follow in the mode of their Fathers. This POS has never had to put food on his table or really earn a living. Just clip the coupons from Daddy's Corporations.