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A Detroit legislator apologized after making racial slurs against a then-rival Asian-American candidate for state Senate.
State Rep. Bettie Cook Scott apologized in a statement issued Thursday after liberal advocacy group Progress Michigan revealed this week that Scott referred to state Rep. Stephanie Chang as a ching-chong ... Scott made the statements Aug. 7 at Bethany Lutheran Church in Detroit, where she called one of Changs volunteers an immigrant and said, You dont belong here, according to Progress Michigan. Later in the day at East English Village Preparatory Academy, Scott was overheard discouraging voters from voting for "the ching-chong."
More than a dozen community groups and the Michigan Democratic Party called for Scott to apologize after her statements became public this week.
Scott and Chang, both from Detroit, were two of six Democratic candidates running for state Senate District 1.
Chang won the primary race with nearly 50 percent of the vote.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/08/16/detroit-legislator-apologizes-racial-slur-bettie-cook-scott-stephanie-chang/1013336002/
lunasun
(21,646 posts)CatWoman
(79,302 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)Where did you find that??????
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)That is NOT how you treat fellow Dems.