GOP Official Refuses to Stop Using N-Word [View all]

Source: Political Wire

A Republican official in Leelanau County, Michigan rejected calls for his resignation after he used the n-word at a public meeting and refused to stop using the racist language, the Leelanau Enterprise reports.

Said road commissioner Tom Eckerle: “Well, this whole thing is because of them n—–s in Detroit.

When rebuked for the racist language, he continued: “I can say anything I want. Black Lives Matter has everything to do with taking the country away from us.”

Eckerle doubled-down in an interview with Interlochen Public Radio: “I don’t regret calling it an n—-r. A n—-r is a n—-r is a n—-r. That’s not a person whatsoever.”

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