Obama un nègre? Un commissaire de police du New Hampshire refuse de s'excuser.

Je ne réfère pas souvent à ce genre d'articles sur mon carnet web, mais ce cas m'intéresse parce que le commissaire de police ne représente pas un coin de pays où ce type de commentaires est fréquent. C'est si près de nous le New Hampshire... Il ne s'agit pas ici de généraliser, mais seulement de faire ressortir qu'on fond de racisme est toujours présent chez nos voisins du sud.

 "A police commissioner in a predominantly white New Hampshire town says he won’t apologize for calling President Barack Obama the N-word, and he sat with his arms crossed while angry residents at a meeting called for his resignation on Thursday.

Wolfeboro Police Commissioner Robert Copeland, who’s 82 and white, has acknowledged in an email to his fellow police commissioners he used the racial slur in describing Obama.

Town resident Jane O'Toole, who moved to Wolfeboro four months ago, said she overheard Copeland say the slur at a restaurant in March and wrote to the town manager about it. Copeland, in an email to her, acknowledged using the slur in referring to the president and said he will not apologize.

 ‘‘I believe I did use the ‘N’ word in reference to the current occupant of the Whitehouse,’’ Copeland said in the email to his fellow police commissioners, part of which he forwarded to O'Toole. ‘‘For this, I do not apologize — he meets and exceeds my criteria for such.’’

http://www.boston.com/news/local/new-hampshire/2014/05/15/town-white-police-official-calls-obama-word/JDdpfXihtRRPnMOqrEzxmM/story.html