HOUMA, La. (AP) — A white state lawmaker in a runoff election called a black civil-rights veteran who had helped her campaign “Buckwheat,” prompting the NAACP to urge voters to kick her out of office.Rep. Carla Blanchard Dartez, a Democrat, acknowledged that she ended a Thursday night conversation with Hazel Boykin by saying, “Talk to you later, Buckwheat.” Dartez had been thanking Boykin for driving voters to the polls.Buckwheat, a black child character in the “Little Rascals” comedies of the 1930s and ’40s, is viewed as a racial stereotype.
Boykin, 75, helped desegregate restaurants and the parish school system in the 1960s. Her son, Jerome, is president of the Terrebonne Parish chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
“I’ve never had no one talk to me that way and I considered it a racial slur,” Hazel Boykin said. “I know the meaning of it, it’s just like the N-word.”
Hasn’t it dawned on anyone, yet, that this kind of thing is the logical result of the racial politics that Democrats … and the NAACP…have engaged in for decades? And, oh, yes, should we point out that the state is dominated by the Democrats? Spend a few decades pitting one race against the other, and this kind of confrontation will invariably occur.
Who benefits? Irony: The Democrats who facilitated it.
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November 14th, 2007 at 0:37
Um. The woman uttered a racist comment. She got slammed for it. She is a Democrat. How are the Democrats going to benefit from it? You’re not making much sense. You can rant on that, see!, racism is hardly confined to Republicans (true enough), but how is this a result of what the NAACP stands for?
We’re hard-wired to mistrust outside our clan. You have to fight against that instinct and appreciate people as people. Everyone can succomb to their worst instincts. All you can do is fight it.