Former Georgia official uses n-word while advocating for Confederate History Month

[laserhaas]

Source: The HILL

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A former city commissioner in Griffin County, Ga., used the n-word during a city council meeting while making a plea for a Confederate history month.

"There were white folks. There were black folks when I was growing up," Johnson says in the video. "There was white trash - my family. There was n-----town. I lived next to n-----town."

"You lived next to what town?" asked McCord.

"N-----town, son!" Johnson shot back. "I'm telling you that I've changed. I'm no longer white trash. And they're no longer called that."

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[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Probably not possible, but he should have been escorted out right then. nt

[laserhaas]

4. It B.S. that they were able to get a hearing

On the issue of "Confederate Month".

Not a "day". The supporters want a whole dam month.

[laserhaas]

2. If someone gets a video clip of exact time of remark

Please advise and I'll switch it out

[packman]

6. Around 53 mark

[Dave Starsky]

18. 53:35.

Really has to be seen to be believed.

[packman]

3. White trash - will always be white trash

You can take the man out of his history, but never the history out of the man.

Sad thing is, the guy is just saying what he was brought up to say and to think. Probably thinks he's past that part of his history, but the stain is still there.

[whathehell]

26. The term "white trash" is ugly, elitist and bigoted

It's almost as bad as the n-word, imo. Like other race based slurs, it should be stricken from the lexicon.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. And the story is NOT ONE person in that room including the other council said a word

they were fine with it

[sandensea]

8. Southern right-wingers are big on doing things tacitly.

The days of having Bull Connor aim fire hoses and sick attack dogs on Black people taught them that PR is important, and that misdeeds are done best when they're done by way of silent consent.

[sandensea]

7. What Deep South Republicans sound like when they think no one's listening.

Or had a little too much Jim Beam.

[Anon-C]

9. Commissioner Douglas Hollberg should resign! nt

[efhmc]

10. Nasty.

Through and through.

[mtngirl47]

11. It's Spalding County....the City of Griffin n/t

[flibbitygiblets]

12. He just made a great case for why "Confederate History Month" should NOT be a thing.

Amazing, the lack of self-awareness some people have.

[Cryptoad]

13. What a great Idea,,,,

"Confederate History Month"!!

a whole month of celebrating how our we enslaved other human being,,, and on top of that , we supported it enough to go to was over it...... Oh Yea a great Idea!

geeeez!

[47of74]

17. We were nowhere near hard ass enough with the south after the Civil War

I am 150% convinced that a majority of the problems we face now are due to us not being hard ass enough towards the south following the Civil War. Including the orange idiot squatting in the White House now.

We should have shut down all of their institutions, hung every last one of their political leaders and every General we could have gotten our hands on for treason, and hunted down any who left the country. And not have been so generous towards the civilians and enlisted people. Instead we largely left their culture and institutions intact, and gave them an out to continue to practice slavery by allowing it as punishment for a "crime." We had no stomach for the hard work to bring about real change in the south and let them to their devices. And we saw how well that worked.

[Jedi Guy]

25. Ummm...

You do realize that this guy is a throwback in more than one sense of the word and that most southerners don't think like he does, right? Every group has its share of loud-mouthed imbeciles.

[Turbineguy]

14. Tom Lehrer

[DemoTex]

16. Reminds me of Randy Newman's "Rednecks."

[DemoTex]

15. I grew up in Griffin, Georgia.

Half as big as a NYC cemetery, and twice as dead.

(apologies to Tom Sharpe)

[Hoyt]

27. I'm so sorry. But, you've come a long way. Grew up on northern side of Atl, which was no better.

[safeinOhio]

19. Confederate History Month is too PC.

Lets call it Surrender Monkey Month.

[iluvtennis]

20. Hateful prejudiced bastard

[geomon666]

21. Let them have it, as long as we get one in return.

I propose having General Sherman's March to the Sea month from November 15th to December 21st. We can have a beautifully reproduced march from Atlanta to Savannah, hold mock battles, pretend to burn slave plantations to the ground, drag an effigy of Jefferson Davis through the streets all while singing Battle Hymn of the Republic.

It'll be beautiful. Let's do it.

[paleotn]

23. Bring back GAR parades. Make Georgia howl!

[paleotn]

22. Confederate history? OK.....

Their cause was evil from the start. They got their collective asses kicked, but cost the country hundreds of thousands of lives in the process due to idiotic stubbornness and were ultimately responsible for the destruction of the south, setting southern economic development back 100 years or more. They weren't reconstructed enough due to politics and northern racism, so they continued their evil shit into the 1970's, when it finally became unacceptable to be publicly racist. But they're still racist in their hearts to this day and still just as evil as their overtly racists ancestors.

There. Confederate history in a nut shell.

[jpak]

24. They will never learn - that generation will not be shut up until they die

nope