Georgia man uses n-word in meeting on Confederate History Month
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Georgia man uses n-word in meeting on Confederate History Month
A Georgia board of commissioners sparked controversy after a former elected official used the n-word several times during a public meeting held the same day it declared April “Confederate History Month.”
Former board member Larry Johnson took the podium at the Griffin County Commissioner meeting on March 28 to speak on the declaration, almost immediately focusing his attention on Commissioner Rodney McCord.
What begins as light banter quickly escalates into a racially charged discussion, sparked by Johnson’s use of racial slurs.
“I told you at that time there were white folks, and there were black folks when I was growing up. There was white trash — my family — and there was n----- town and I lived next to n----- town,” Johnson said.
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In an official recording of the meeting, McCord can be heard reacting with shock while the rest of the board remains hushed.
“You grew up to next to what town?” said McCord, who appears to be one of two black officials present at the time.
He responded: “N----- town, son, I’m telling you. Now, I’ve changed. I’m no longer called white trash and they’re no longer called that.”
McCord attempted to interrupt, but the board’s chairman, Doug Hollberg, quieted him so that Johnson could conclude his comments.
know,” McCord said in response. “I’m not going to sit here and let this man use that type of language.”
He added that if no one would acknowledge the comments as derogatory, he would stand alone on the matter.
“Now if y’all want to clap and think that it’s okay for this gentleman to stand, in 2018, and get here at the board of city commission meeting — 2018 — the Civil War is over and he is using the n-word not once, not twice — three times!
“And he just continues to say it with not one word about who it offends.”
His comments prompted Hollberg to encourage Johnson to refrain from using the racial slur. Before the ex-board member gave up the floor he apologized to McCord and argued the Civil War wasn’t fought over slavery.
The following speaker proposed specific rules for what type of language should be allowed during the public meetings, Washington Post reported.
“If I stood up here and used a four-letter word that began with a ‘F’ and ended with a ‘K’ everyone would be offended,” Bonnie Moret said. “So I think there should be a decorum.”
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What you have here is a confederate sympathizer (Johnson) who wanted to flaunt his use of the n-word, but to try and do so in a "down home" way where he could then say he didnt mean nothin by it.
Why is this town organizing a confederate history month to begin with? This is the USA.
It says a lot about the character of a town when its leaders endorse racist shit. Kind of amazing that it's a suburb of Atlanta.
The guy who repeated the n word was up at the podium to praise Confederate History Month. The two go hand in hand.
That part of Georgia must be Trump country.
It is deplorable when a deplorable's deplorable language deplorably slips into deplorable public deplorability
Who cares?
Magnolia, do you think that Larry Johnson knows that it is wrong to use the N - word in a public meeting in 2018 ?
Of course he knows, but he did.
and thats why it's national news now.
Blatant racism.
This just shows how we're still only one generation away from the bigots who remember calling black neighborhoods "n&$&^% towns". These are the exact people Trump blew his dog whistle for and garnered support from, those who wanted to "Make America Great Again" and take us back to a time when that kind of derogatory bigoted language was common.
Big deal. Whether they say or think it.....what[s the problem?
You can't make people think like you do.
We want and demand the Confederate History Month.l
Sho nuff de south gonna rise agin !
It's GA...nuff said.
In the time period preceding, during and after the American Civil War, especially in The South, the N-word was and is accepted common vernacular.
The movie "Django Unchained" clearly shows this.
Confederate History Month can be a very interesting topic. Placing the war and slavery aside, The Antebellum South was a prime example of governance on these shores of a ridged oligarchy class of ruling wealth determining every facet of existence for every citizen in the society. The Antebellum South was wholly and totally dependent upon slave labor for the wealth accumulation of the ruling class, which were the landowners. In a sense this Antebellum experiment was not unlike European Royal Rule by Divine Right, with the exception that in Europe the lines of rule were determined by blood and in the American South the lines of rule were determined by land and the wealth that land accumulated.
In the movie 12 Years A Slave, (which is based on a 1853 autobiography of a black man from upstate New York who was forced into slavery in 1841 in Louisiana) the slaves are routinely referred to by the masters and their wives , employees etc. as "niggers" . The master might say "Bring that nigger here" or "How many niggers are you taking into the south field today?" It was a matter of course.
As the book the movie was based on was non-fiction, I assume that the language was mostly accurate.