Old Gard

There are times when the old needs to be ousted to let the new in.

Political leaders in a New Hampshire town have officially joined residents in demanding the resignation of a police commissioner who uttered a racial slur about President Barack Obama.

…More than 100 residents packed a Police Commission meeting Thursday to demand the resignation of Copeland, 82.

…A resident said she overheard Copeland use a slur a restaurant in March and wrote to the town manager. Copeland, in an email to her, acknowledged using the slur in referring to the president and said he will not apologize.

“I believe I did use the ‘N’ word in reference to the current occupant of the Whitehouse,” Copeland said in an email to his fellow police commissioners. “For this, I do not apologize – he meets and exceeds my criteria for such.”

It’s a small town so that’s a HUGE number of residents taking an active position to asking him to leave. Also we all know that 100 active people probably means close to 10 times that number (possibly less given the town size, and how open he is about his feelings) haven’t spoke up, but feel the same, this is BAD ju-ju for the police force there.

Here’s an interesting observation that I’ve noticed being from Lilly-White Maine:

About 20 black people live in Wolfeboro in central New Hampshire, a state that’s 94 percent white and 1 percent black. None of the police department’s 12 full-time officers is black or a member of another minority.

That quote is pretty worthless, if the town is almost completely white, without active affirmative action you’ll be hard pressed to find ANY group that skews minority. Still I’ve noticed that the more homogenous a population is in an area the more revolting the racism can be. I knew a ton of people in Maine who would drop the N-Bomb frequently, and would make horrible cracks about blacks….but I always wondered if they had even SEEN one.

It’s a LOT harder to make such cracks when you know people of a minority or other groups.

Either way, this guy is a dinosaur and should be let out to pasture.

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