Last modified: December 15. 2005 10:07AM
Burch defends ‘house nigger’ comment (Bermuda)
By Scott Neil
In an unscheduled but impassioned Senate debate on race and discrimination, Senator Lt. Col. David Burch has defended his use of the phrase “house nigger” as being a relevant observation and something that he was entitled to express under his own human rights.
(Just because you can does not mean ya should dude)
And he said such forthright opinions would be viewed as normal confidence in a white person but are regarded as arrogance when they come from a black person.
Sen. Burch spoke out after hearing the Human Rights Commission lambasted as not having “testicular fortitude” for deciding it did not have the remit to deal with a complaint against him for using the “house nigger” term during a radio show in August.
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“If there is a genuine desire to move forward in this country racially so that we have some honest talk, we have to have some honest talk from everybody. And we need to be not offended because somebody used a term that you don’t like. The defence cannot be that if you say something that someone doesn’t like ‘Oh, you’re a racist’.”
(You can get a point across without trying to use words that you know will upset those you are trying to talk to)
http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051215/NEWS/112150127
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