Posted on 04/04/2018 10:34:39 AM PDT by rktman
Black activists aren’t satisfied with Florida Democratic National Committee (DNC) member John Parker’s explanation that he meant to say “people of color” but used the expression “colored people” instead. They want him to resign.
Parker told Politico that he was trying to say “people of color” but didn’t get it right. Parker’s own wife has joined the chorus of African-Americans and Democratic officials who say the DNC committeeman from Duval County, Florida, needs to step aside.
Parker made the remarks on Jan. 22 while speaking at a party meeting in Jacksonville and apologized after the initial uproar from those present at the Burrito Gallery restaurant, where he was holding forth.
“Why would you still think that ‘colored’ was cool? Because to me it’s a Jim Crow terminology and it’s unacceptable,” Diallo-Sekou Seabrooks told First Coast News.
Some in the black community say Parker’s choice of words represent a pattern.
At the now infamous Burrito meeting, his critics claim he also bemoaned the affects of racial integration while others accuse him of using the description “mayor’s mammy” and calling the Working People Caucus the “Poor Black People Working Caucus.”
When first challenged for his colored people remarks, Parker told Politico that it was all a misunderstanding.
“I misspoke and used the term colored people when I meant people of color,” Parker said. He also denied allegations that he had used pejorative terms for blacks in the past, insisting the comments “did not happen.”
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NAACP was unavailable for comment.
I’m an activist..I demand that the “Governor” Jerry Brown be arrested!
I’m never one to stop red on red fire, but just what exactly does NAACP stand for?
Liberals. Eating their own.
Yum!
This SMALL minority of US citizens are suddenly running the show-———I just don’t get it.
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There are no second acts in American life...................Bye.................
I love it when leftists eat there own.
Weird huh? Change to NAAPOC?
People of color are colored people and colored people are people of color.
How you arranged the words makes no difference, really.
Skin color is what matters...../s
So people of color is cool, and colored people is evil. Progressives sure are funny.
And his wife stabbed him in the back.....nice. This is exactly why chicks aren’t allowed in the mafia.
Right. Burn him at the stake!
Petty issues for petty people.
SO he said ‘Colored People’. Oh well.
I don’t know how old this guy is, but everyone used to say this. Mistakes are often made. I think the DNC want this guy out of position anyway, for other reasons, regardless of this matter.
People of color = colored people.
What’s the difference? I’m confused.
BTW, I moved to rural KY seven years ago from Seattle. I was shocked that they still say “colored” here. What’s even more shocking is that I don’t even notice it any more.
The elephant in the room is the sickness that is “black culture”. So we need constant distractions from that elephant.
Then, we can blame the suffering of blacks on freedom, and destroy it.
It must be "People of Color".
It kind of reminds me of the movie "Life of Brian":
REG: Right. You're in. Listen. The only people we hate more than the Romans are the f****** Judean People's Front.
P.F.J.: Yeah...
JUDITH: Splitters.
P.F.J.: Splitters...
FRANCIS: And the Judean Popular People's Front.
P.F.J.: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Splitters. Splitters...
LORETTA: And the People's Front of Judea.
P.F.J.: Yeah. Splitters. Splitters...
REG: What?
LORETTA: The People's Front of Judea. Splitters.
REG: We're the People's Front of Judea!
Looks like pretending to be open minded post racial modernists was a bit too hard for some of the old Solid South plantation masters still oinking at the Rat party trough.
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