Whitey Ford
12-11-2019, 04:27 AM
Texas GOP leader blames racist text message referring to a fellow black party member as a 'typical n**' on 'fast typing', as local leaders call for her resignation
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A Texas GOP leader has come under fire and pressure to resign over a months-old text she sent in which she used n-word to refer to a fellow black party member.
Chairwoman of the Galveston County Republican Party Yolanda Waters, who is black, sent a damning text to another party leader in which she referred to J. T. Edwards, a member of the State Republican Executive Committee, as a 'typical n**' on March 27.
Screenshots of that exchange surfaced online over the weekend and sparked outrage for her offensive language.
Water, who identifies as a Latina and African-American woman, claims that it was a typo because she was typing too fast.
'I usually type very fast, and in this case, I moved too fast to see that the word was there,' she said in a statement to the New York Daily News. 'I made the typo because I did not proofread my text. I do not believe it is appropriate language to use in speaking about a fellow African-American.'
In the text message exchange first published by the Galveston County Daily News on Saturday, Waters complained that Edwards is asking for money to go to Austin for a meeting.
'Can you believe it. He lives off everyone else. I told him our personal money tree has dried up. And I am done, no more, do not call Alan to adk (sic) for money again. His response was why. Can you believe it,' Waters wrote in the text.
Her friend asked, 'Why doesn't he work?'
'Typical n**,' Waters replied.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7777707/Texas-GOP-leader-fire-sending-text-referring-fellow-black-member-typical-n.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
https://i.imgur.com/ds9Vw1u.jpg
A Texas GOP leader has come under fire and pressure to resign over a months-old text she sent in which she used n-word to refer to a fellow black party member.
Chairwoman of the Galveston County Republican Party Yolanda Waters, who is black, sent a damning text to another party leader in which she referred to J. T. Edwards, a member of the State Republican Executive Committee, as a 'typical n**' on March 27.
Screenshots of that exchange surfaced online over the weekend and sparked outrage for her offensive language.
Water, who identifies as a Latina and African-American woman, claims that it was a typo because she was typing too fast.
'I usually type very fast, and in this case, I moved too fast to see that the word was there,' she said in a statement to the New York Daily News. 'I made the typo because I did not proofread my text. I do not believe it is appropriate language to use in speaking about a fellow African-American.'
In the text message exchange first published by the Galveston County Daily News on Saturday, Waters complained that Edwards is asking for money to go to Austin for a meeting.
'Can you believe it. He lives off everyone else. I told him our personal money tree has dried up. And I am done, no more, do not call Alan to adk (sic) for money again. His response was why. Can you believe it,' Waters wrote in the text.
Her friend asked, 'Why doesn't he work?'
'Typical n**,' Waters replied.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7777707/Texas-GOP-leader-fire-sending-text-referring-fellow-black-member-typical-n.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490