Mayoral Candidate Under Fire for Racial Slur

Mayoral Candidate Under Fire for Racial Slur

SACRAMENTO, CA - Sacramento mayoral candidate Murial Strand came under fire Tuesday night at the Sacramento City Council for using a racial slur in her blog.

On the site, Strand voiced concerns about plans to move the Greyhound bus station to Richards Boulevard. At Tuesday night's meeting, she voiced her opposition to the plan, to which city councilwoman Bonnie Pannel addressed the racial slur Strand used on her Web site.
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From her updated Blog----------------------------------

"It's not news that the N-word has a lot of baggage. It reminds black folks of huge amounts of pain and cruelty. It reminds white folks that they caused it, and that it continues in milder ways. Bonnie Pannell may also be upset because I was implying that as a councilperson she would be voting to treat poor people in a way akin to the way her people were abused."

The facts I referred to on KCRA footage, that they cut out, were as follows:
1. We are all Africans, since that's where the human began. Some left and some stayed. Those who stayed retained the highest degree of genetic diversity, giving them the best chances of adapting to evolutionary challenges.

2. When some Africans were kidnapped and shipped across the Atlantic stacked like lobs, many died. The ones who arrived were on the average stronger and smarter.

3. After they arrived they were subjected to more challenges to survival over many generations. Guess what? Those who survived were on the average stronger and smarter.

---- The quote from her Blog that caused the uproar:

"So if you are an ordinary middle-class person who wants to fight crime, tell the city council and the mayor that this is not the way to fix the sinkhole in the city budget. We don't need to make poor people our new n***ers."

http://sustainablesacramento.blogspot.com/

i live outside Sac proper so i don't vote for their mayor but this has been one nasty campaign so far.

if i were able to vote, the candidate that wore his led zeppelin shirt to the debate would be my choice.

note the picture at the top.

http://www.NoWayKJ.com/

reminded me of Time Oj cover.

My father was always a registered Republican, but I'm not sure he voted for one after Eisenhower, and he thought W beneath contempt. My grandfather was a machinist and a union man. When we were kids, there was Bible reading after breakfast, but when my mother decided to read it cover to cover about 15 years ago, her faith was weakened by the experience.
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Candidate Profile: Muriel Strand

Half-a-dozen candidates are running for mayor in Sacramento and Election Day is less than two-weeks away. KXJZ News is spotlighting each of the candidates in a series of short profiles. Our series continues with a look at Muriel Strand.



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