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Post-racial America:
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.
He was overheard at a restaurant by a new town resident who complained to the city manager. Copeland responded with an email.
"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."
Whatever criteria Copeland himself meets and exceeds, the town's elected officials apparently lack the authority to remove another elected official.
Update below the fold.
8:35 PM PT: Thanks to JoanMar for finding this link, because the racism is officially systemic:
Commission Chairman Joseph Balboni Jr. told the Concord Monitor he doesn't plan to ask Copeland to resign. He said, "He's (Copeland) worked with a lot of blacks in his life. ... He said some harsh words about Mr. Obama, and here we are. This woman, she's blowing it all out of proportion."
A lot of standard excuses in that: The bigot has worked with blacks, it's only "harsh words," and it's the woman's fault for making a big deal out of nothing.