GOP Official Refuses to Stop Using N-Word
Source: Political Wire
A Republican official in Leelanau County, Michigan rejected calls for his resignation after he used the n-word at a public meeting and refused to stop using the racist language, the Leelanau Enterprise reports.
Said road commissioner Tom Eckerle: Well, this whole thing is because of them ns in Detroit.
When rebuked for the racist language, he continued: I can say anything I want. Black Lives Matter has everything to do with taking the country away from us.
Eckerle doubled-down in an interview with Interlochen Public Radio: I dont regret calling it an n-r. A n-r is a n-r is a n-r. Thats not a person whatsoever.
Read more: https://politicalwire.com/2020/08/07/gop-official-refuses-to-stop-using-n-word/
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Aristus
(66,391 posts)of Jabba the Hutt and the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man...
Perfect description.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)the idea that someone like this goes through life thinking he is superior to others - I mean, WTF
lonely bird
(1,687 posts)Prozac and a baseball bat couldn't cure.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Kids in schools, workers in stores, social service workers, etc!
quickesst
(6,280 posts).... yet you project your anger on the south, and none whatsoever on the actual user of the foul language who is from a Northern state. I'll see your and raise you a .
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Speaking from 1st hand experience, living & working in south. Fact. Not projection.
quickesst
(6,280 posts)Point being that you are directing your anger at the South in a thread that concerns a Michigan politician in a Northern State, and your failure to offer up any criticism whatsoever concerning said politician who happens to be from a Northern State.
As a lifelong Democrat who was born and has lived most of my life in the south, even with all its problems, I wouldn't live anywhere else.
LuvNewcastle
(16,847 posts)quickesst
(6,280 posts)louis-t
(23,295 posts)Right next to Traverse City. He's trying to make a name for himself. Probably hoping to get on Hannity's show.
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)I hurt for my country and the shambles it is becoming, even as the majority of Americans are fully decent, kind and caring.
LogicFirst
(571 posts)That's why God created Hell.
BComplex
(8,054 posts)DUer Duhneece is dealing with a guy exactly like this racist creep. Duhneece is running for the NM State Senate seat.
PLEASE DONATE TO HER CAMPAIGN! She's helping all the down-line democrats running all over New Mexico, too!
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/committee-to-elect-denise-lang-browne-1
Go Denise!!!!
Stuart G
(38,436 posts)Perhaps?..................
leftieNanner
(15,124 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Denying reality is who they are! 🤬
JustGene
(421 posts)Part of why they deny science is that they won't believe
that they are empirically equal.
And it refutes "Creationism"
reACTIONary
(5,770 posts)aquamarina
(1,865 posts)Grokenstein
(5,725 posts)Dear foaming-at-the-mouth racist: feel free to join humanity in the 21st Century. We have electric lights!
NCjack
(10,279 posts)DEMs in Michigan to hang that around the necks of every Republican running for office.
oldsoftie
(12,558 posts)Not the usual dance routine about "what I REALLY meant to say...."
cyndensco
(1,697 posts)Some people blame us for everything. The n-word, meh - heard it before...
It is unfortunate the 6.48% non-white people in Leelanau County have this bigot as their road commissioner. His n-word usage is bad but it is worse that he may have control over which roads are repaired/plowed and in what order.
In a perfect world, every decision he makes would face oversight. Then again, in a perfect world, he would not be in the position to begin with. Wait, in a perfect world, HE wouldn't exist.
PatSeg
(47,507 posts)and just woke up in 2020. In what decade does he think it is okay to talk like that? On the radio no less? His total lack of regret or remorse is stunning.
eShirl
(18,494 posts)After all, we can all say anything we want.
I don't think he'd like that very much.
oldsoftie
(12,558 posts)Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)oldsoftie
(12,558 posts)maxrandb
(15,334 posts)I Know. We're Democrats and decent people, so we don't use political power as a cudgle against Dumbfuckistan Murika when we have power, but God Damned if this doesn't make me want to let these shithole "backwards ass" areas of Murika just fucking suffer.
Close their fucking Post offices!
Make it law that states get back NOT one more cent in federal funding than they provide in taxes.
No fucking federal contracts for any company in any state with "right to work" laws.
Close their fucking polling places 5 days before an election and make them travel 3 hours to cast their vote in their new polling place, a downtown LGBTQ Bar.
They can have all the fucking guns they want, but ban the manufacturing and sale of amunition. Just think how many of the stupid fucks will blow themselves up trying to make their own.
Executive Orders to ban Faux News, Hate Radio and Sinclair Broadcasting as they are enemies of the state. Replace all hate radio shows with French cooking shows, where the hosts speak French!
I never thought I would feel this way, but Donnie Shit for Brains and the Retrumplicans level of cruelty, racism and treason has me convinced that the only way to fix our country and get us back to sanity is to punish these fucksticks.
Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,579 posts)and goes to prove the point that racism isn't confined to the deep south. He needs to go.
greyl
(22,990 posts)Traverse City An elected official in a mostly white county in northern Michigan who used a racist slur prior to a public meeting to describe Black people in Detroit will resign, the county administrator said Friday.
Leelanau County Administrator Chet Janik said Tom Eckerle, a member of the county road commission, would step down after receiving criticism from across the U.S. for his comments.
I personally and professionally think its in the best interests of Mr. Eckerle, the road commission and Leelanau County, Janik told The Associated Press.
The Traverse City Record-Eagle reported that Eckerle had informed the newspaper of his plans to quit, saying he didnt want to burden a newly hired road commission manager scheduled to begin work this month. Eckerle did not return a call from the AP. But in a phone interview earlier Friday, he repeated the slur while maintaining he was not a racist.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/08/07/michigan-county-official-defends-using-n-word/112899250/