WTF? - Candidate Apologizes For 'Buckwheat' Remark

KQ · 11-12-2007, 05:06 PM

Honestly - what is the matter with ppl?

Candidate Apologizes For 'Buckwheat' Remark

HOUMA, La. -- A state representative in a runoff election infuriated civil rights leaders after she ended a conversation with the mother of the NAACP's local president by saying, "Talk to you later, Buckwheat."

State Rep. Carla Blanchard Dartez, of Morgan City, acknowledged she made the remark during a Thursday night telephone conversation with Hazel Boykin to thank her for driving voters to the polls.

Buckwheat, a black child character in the "Little Rascals" comedies of the 1930s and '40s, is viewed as a racial stereotype demeaning to black people.

Hazel Boykin's son, Jerome, is the NAACP's president in Terrebonne Parish. She is well-known as a 1960s civil rights activist, helping to desegregate restaurants and the parish school system.

Dartez has represented parts of Terrebonne, St. Mary and Assumption parishes since 1999. She has said she does not intend to drop out of the race.

"I made an insensitive comment when speaking with Hazel Boykin, and I have apologized to the Boykin family and publicly for my choice of words," Dartez said in a statement. "I have a strong record of fighting for issues important to the African American community; in fact, I have a 93 percent voting record with the Black Caucus."

But the "Buckwheat" remark is the latest bit of trouble for Dartez and her husband, Lenny, who is a member of the Democratic Party's State Central Committee.

Before qualifying in September, Carla Dartez was given a summons for improper lane usage after hitting a pedestrian with her vehicle. She failed a field sobriety test but passed a later Breathalyzer test.

Earlier this month, Lenny Dartez was indicted on charges of allegedly harboring illegal aliens through his construction business.

**Viva** · 11-12-2007, 05:26 PM

In other words, Mrs. Boykin wasn't otay with that remark.

**axebiker** · 11-12-2007, 05:36 PM

I'm sensitive to people being sensitive.

FUCK.

**The Dad** · 11-12-2007, 05:53 PM

Originally Posted by KQ

Honestly - what is the matter with ppl?

People who'd make that kind or remark or apologize for it?

Why on earth would she say something like that? While thanking her for working on her campaign, no less?

I can picture circumstances where it might be appropriate -- like if the conversation went something like:

Rep. Dartez: "Thanks, Hazel; your support means the world to me. Can I count on you to do the same in November?"

Ms. Boykin: "O'tay!" [chuckle chuckle]

Rep. Dartez: [chuckle chuckle] "Talk to you later, Buckwheat."

But just out of the blue? You've got to be kidding me.

If some jackass representative called to thank me for doing something and out of left field, ended the call with, "Talk to you later, Shylock," you can be damned sure I'd alert the press.

**Benny Profane** · 11-12-2007, 05:58 PM

Can we go back to that Civil War thing and let Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas just, you know, go away?

**Tourette Dude** · 11-12-2007, 06:15 PM

Unfortunately that mentality is everywhere. There is a certain percentage of the population who are narcassistic ignorant fucks. How do think Fox is able to sell advertising.

**SuperGaper** · 11-12-2007, 06:16 PM

Originally Posted by Benny Profane

Can we go back to that Civil War thing and let Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas just, you know, go away?

Ha ha, I was having dinner with my girlfriend at the home of one of her work contacts. She covers the county for the news and guide, and he is the money behind Save Historic Jackson Hole, and a wealthy investment banker originally from Virginia.
Save Historic Jackson Hole agenda aside, the highlights included his showing me his M-16 with scope in response to my saying that I support hunting but not the NRA.
After that he went on to admit that though he voted for Bush (twice) he felt he was the worst president since Lincoln- who "got thousands and thousands of boys killed in the War of Northern Aggression."
All these Southern Apologists still come to Jackson every summer, in response I was hoping we could sell the former confederate states to Cuba, so they could fully realize their dream to remain an under industrialized agrarian nation.
Still think the "peculiar institution" would be a tough sell though.