Racist remarks get New Haven fire lieutenant suspended

[KamaAina]

http://wtnh.com/2015/09/01/racist-remarks-get-new-haven-fire-lieutenant-suspended/

A New Haven fire lieutenant has been suspended without pay for the entire month of September following racist remarks found posted through his Facebook page. The comments touched a very personal nerve with New Haven Mayor Toni Harp.

“I am a person that has been called that name in elementary and high school, and I’ll tell you it’s very demoralizing and hurtful,” Harp said Tuesday afternoon. “My people helped to build this country on slave labor. I am enraged by this comment, but we’ve got to go through a process.”

The post with the racial slur showed up under the name of Kevin Owens, who has been identified as a veteran lieutenant with the New Haven Fire Department. It reads, “In the U.S. we call them n******.” The comment was found under a story posted on the Facebook page for a right-wing British group named “English and Proud.” Owens was suspended immediately, a decision his union agrees with.

“If it’s true, it’s very hard to defend stupidity,” said Union president Capt. Jimmy Kottage. “Racism cannot be accepted in our city or anywhere.”

Well, it is southern Connecticut.

[sharp_stick]

1. They live everywhere

One of the most virulent racists I ever met lives, or lived I'm not sure anymore, in Brattleboro Vermont. Not a place I ever figured to meet someone like him.

[sharp_stick]

2. I do like the response of his union President

"“If it’s true, it’s very hard to defend stupidity,” said Union president Capt. Jimmy Kottage. “Racism cannot be accepted in our city or anywhere.”

http://wtnh.com/2015/09/01/racist-remarks-get-new-haven-fire-lieutenant-suspended/

[Glassunion]

3. Police Unions should take notes...

[ohheckyeah]

4. Good for

them. How stupid and crazy are people for using racial slurs? It's 2015 and it hasn't been acceptable for years.

My Dad informed us as children that that word wasn't to pass our lips. I naver heard that word at home and at 17 walked out of a church when a deacon used it from the pulpit. Of course in that little southern town I was the one who was considered wrong but I didn't care. That was in the 70s.