La. Pol's 'Buckwheat' Remark Draws Ire
HOUMA, La. —
A white state lawmaker in a runoff election called a black civil-rights veteran who had helped her campaign "Buckwheat," angering the NAACP, which urged voters to kick her out of office.
Evil Republican devil...
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.
Oh, wait...
Buckwheat, a black child character in the "Little Rascals"
comedies of the 1930s and '40s, is viewed as a racial stereotype.
This is "News for those who live under a rock"...
(Alternate snark: Did anyone tell Eddie Murphy circa 1983 this?)
You just know this is serious if the NAACP is actually advocating people vote against a Democrat...
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