"they're trying to make it sound like a racial thing"

[Enrique]

http://wonkette.com/513698/meet-the-old-white-michigan-lady-clerk-who-uses-n-word-in-not-at-all-racist-way-to-describe-black-official#more-513698

http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2013/04/buena_vista_township_clerk_def.html

BUENA VISTA, MI — Discord on the Buena Vista Township Board of Trustees reached a fever pitch Monday, April 22, when the township's interim manager played a recording of a telephone conversation in which the clerk uses a racial slur to describe the supervisor.

After playing the audio recording, Interim Township Manager Dexter Mitchell called for the resignation of Clerk Gloria Platko, who can be heard on the recording using the N-word to describe Township Supervisor Dwayne Parker.

Mitchell said he recorded the call in January without Platko’s knowledge because he didn’t want her to twist his words. About six minutes into the recording, Mitchell asks, “Would you be willing to sit down with (Parker)?”

Platko told Mitchell that Parker is “just rubbing me the wrong way.

“He is just doing whatever he can. You know what I think of Mr. Parker right now, and I know you’re not even going to like this,” Platko said in the recording. “But he’s just an arrogant (N-word). And I’m sorry to say it that way, but that’s the way I feel.”

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“They’re trying to make it sound like a racial thing. It’s not a race thing,” Platko said. “This was a private phone call that he recorded. This was directed toward one person. This was not directed toward a race or a group of people.”

[virgogal]

1. That recording would be illegal in MA. That said,the lady is an ass.

[Catherine Vincent]

4. Judging by her pic she looks like one too

[seabeyond]

2. it is not a sexist thing. this is directed toward one woman. not all women.

I have heard this exact argument with sexist slurs to women here on du. I would never imagine anyone really believed that shit.

[Sheldon Cooper]

7. Yep.

[brush]

3. It's racial towards a whole group of people . . .

. . . and she's to stupid to know that's what her choice of words represents. She's a dinosaur from an era when blacks were supposed to know their place. She should be forced to resign from office immediately.

[Lilyeye]

5. Dispicable and stupid.

[ChazII]

6. She should be kicked out of office.

This is 2013 and who is she trying to bullshit???