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Related: About this forumDutchess County controller draws fire over racially tinged tweet
KEN LOVETT
Here is an expanded version of my story from today's editions:
A Dutchess County official has touched off a furor by telling a black MSNBC news anchor on Twitter, Keep your stinking paws off my kid, you damned dirty ape.
The remark by Jim Coughlan, the Dutchess County controller and a candidate for state Senate, was directed at Melissa Harris-Perry in response to remarks she made about child-rearing that upset many conservatives.
Coughlan said he had no idea that Harris-Perry is black and denied the comment had racist undertones, saying he simply repeating a well-known quote from the Planet of the Apes.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/dutchess-county-controller-raises-draws-fire-racially-tinged-tweet-blog-entry-1.1781217#ixzz30wmMG7Nn
whathehell
(29,090 posts)You call that racially "tinged"?...I'd call that full on White Hooded Racism.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)whathehell
(29,090 posts)What a scumbag...The mind reels.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Many of the elected officials in that county are very right wing.
CherokeeDem
(3,709 posts)The undercurrent of racism in this country has been hidden for years but has been present all along. With the election of a man of color as president, these bastards can't control themselves any longer, and their hatred is bubbling over.
It is disgusting.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Not surprised because that counties elected officials are very right wing.