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Related: About this forumDetroit Rep. Bettie Cook Scott on Asian opponent: 'Don't vote for the ching-chong!'
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Detroit Rep. Bettie Cook Scott on Asian opponent: 'Don't vote for the ching-chong!'
Posted By Violet Ikonomova on Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:09 am
Rep. Stephanie Chang, Rep. Bettie Cook Scott.
More than a dozen community groups have called on Rep. Bettie Cook Scott (D-Detroit) to apologize for a series of racial slurs sources say she used to describe her primary election opponent, Rep. Stephanie Chang (D-Detroit).
Scott is alleged to have referred to Chang as "ching-chang" and "the ching-chong" to multiple voters outside polling precincts during last Tuesday's election. She's also said to have called one of Chang's campaign volunteers an immigrant, saying you dont belong here and I want you out of my country.
Chang and Scott were running in the Democratic primary for state Sen. District 1. Chang won the election with 49 percent of the vote; Scott came in third with 11 percent of the vote.
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The various off-color remarks were heard by multiple people connected with Chang, including Chang's husband, who spoke with Metro Times. Sean Gray says after overhearing Cook disparage Chang outside a precinct on the east side of Detroit, "I ... asked her not to speak about my wife in that manner. At that time she said to the voter that 'these immigrants from China are coming over and taking our community from us.' Further, she said it 'disgusts her seeing black people holding signs for these Asians and not supporting their own people.'"
Detroit Rep. Bettie Cook Scott on Asian opponent: 'Don't vote for the ching-chong!'
Posted By Violet Ikonomova on Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:09 am
Rep. Stephanie Chang, Rep. Bettie Cook Scott.
More than a dozen community groups have called on Rep. Bettie Cook Scott (D-Detroit) to apologize for a series of racial slurs sources say she used to describe her primary election opponent, Rep. Stephanie Chang (D-Detroit).
Scott is alleged to have referred to Chang as "ching-chang" and "the ching-chong" to multiple voters outside polling precincts during last Tuesday's election. She's also said to have called one of Chang's campaign volunteers an immigrant, saying you dont belong here and I want you out of my country.
Chang and Scott were running in the Democratic primary for state Sen. District 1. Chang won the election with 49 percent of the vote; Scott came in third with 11 percent of the vote.
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The various off-color remarks were heard by multiple people connected with Chang, including Chang's husband, who spoke with Metro Times. Sean Gray says after overhearing Cook disparage Chang outside a precinct on the east side of Detroit, "I ... asked her not to speak about my wife in that manner. At that time she said to the voter that 'these immigrants from China are coming over and taking our community from us.' Further, she said it 'disgusts her seeing black people holding signs for these Asians and not supporting their own people.'"
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Detroit Rep. Bettie Cook Scott on Asian opponent: 'Don't vote for the ching-chong!' (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Aug 2018
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pangaia
(24,324 posts)1. What a piece of shit.. So glad she lost...
lunasun
(21,646 posts)2. Wowser not once not twice. Seems like she should have an R not D after her name with that attitiude
next time go R or go away
CurtEastPoint
(18,647 posts)3. She needs to give up her Democratic credentials. Idiot.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)4. Not too bright, Bettie Bye-Bye.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)5. Thank God Bettie Battle lost to
Rep Stephanie Chang. As African Americans we believe in and support EXCELLENCE in all colors and races. Stephanie represents such excellence. Bettie Battle does not.
dlk
(11,566 posts)6. Not All Racists are White
Me.
(35,454 posts)7. Thank God She Lost
no wonder she only got 11%
Demit
(11,238 posts)8. Also, what is going on with her eyebrows?
Lucky Luciano
(11,257 posts)9. Wow - trying to out-tr$&p tr$&p himself. Not a good look.
Betty - you are done here - never to return.