Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Another Angry Guy

Rhode Island: Apparently the guy below was angry when he said a certain word. But on Canadian precedent that makes what he said OK. And we know how much the Left like non-U.S. legal precedents:

"The longtime chairman of the Roger Williams University board admitted Monday that he had used the N-word during a board meeting, saying it "kind of slipped out."

Papitto, 80, who stepped down this month after nearly 40 years on the board, admitted he used the racial slur at a May meeting of the school's board of trustees. He had been discussing the difficulty of finding blacks and other minority members to serve on the 16-member board, which at the time included 14 white men and two women.

Barbara Roberts, then a board member, said Papitto became irate when he discussed pressures to make the board more diverse, at one point using the slur to refer to black candidates.

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Update:

Taranto has a tongue-in-cheek comment on this story.