“Talk to you later, Buckwheat!” Democrat blames Eddie Murphy
This is all your fault, Eddie.
What a quandary for the race-hustling mob. An insensitive slur surfaces in the South. But it comes out of the mouth of a female Democrat. Ignore or exploit? What to do, what to do…
Allah and many others yesterday blogged about the bizarro Democrat politician, Carla Dartez, from Louisiana who called the mother of a black civil rights leader “Buckwheat.” She’s blaming an Eddie Murphy movie for her racial gaffe:
Louisiana State Representative Carla Dartez is considering resigning after allegedly referring to the mother of an NAACP president as “Buckwheat,” a Houma newspaper reported Friday.
Jerome Boykin, President of Morgan City’s NAACP, told WAFB 9NEWS that Dartez was speaking by phone with his mother to thank his mother for her help with Dartez’s re-election bid. That help included volunteering to drive voters to the polls during the October 20th primary. Boykin says Dartez ended that conversation by telling his mother, “Talk to you later, Buckwheat.” Boykin says he considers that to be a racial slur.
Boykin, who supported Dartez’s re-election bid in October, says he has now informed Dartez he is no longer supporting her. “I will do everything in my power to see that she’s not re-elected,” Boykin told WAFB 9NEWS. Dartez, a Democrat, received 44% of the vote in October, and faces a November 17th runoff against Republican Joe Harrison, who received 36% of the primary vote.
Boykin says, after his mother told him about the conversation, he called Dartez and she acknowledged she had used the “Buckwheat” reference. He says Dartez started to cry and apologized. “She said she’d gone to Walmart a couple of days ago and bought an Eddie Murphy tape and that’s what they said on the tape.” He says Dartez indicated she did not realize that the term could be interpreted as a racial slur.
Oooookay. (Or did she say “O-tay?”) So, did she watch Best of Saturday Night Live videos and not realize that it’s un-P.C. comedy, not P.C. cultural training?
Dartez has issued an apology, but is now refusing to withdraw from her race:
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.”
Oh, well, that makes everything alright then!
Dartez has quite the shady history. Protecting illegal aliens, for example, isn’t exactly a help to the African American community. Her husband was indicted on charges of allegedly harboring illegal aliens through his construction business earlier this month:
A federal grand jury has indicted the husband of a state representative and his business manager in an investigation of illegal immigrants at the husband’s Morgan City businesses.
Lenny J. Dartez — husband of state Rep. Carla Dartez, D-Morgan City — and Kenneth J. Morrison face federal charges of harboring illegal aliens. Prosecutors are also seeking the forfeiture of two company vans allegedly used to transport illegal immigrants to and from job sites, according to an indictment filed Friday. Lenny Dartez, a member of the Louisiana Democratic Party’s central committee, was arrested last month in the investigation. He has denied wrongdoing.
Prosecutors allege that two of Lenny Dartez’s companies, Winston Service Contractors and Cobra Contractors, hired out at least five illegal immigrants from Trinidad to refurbish offshore piping. Morrison is listed in the indictment as the manger of both of those companies.
The investigation began earlier this year when federal agents responded to a tip that illegal immigrants were allegedly working for Lenny Dartez and living in a group of mobile homes in Amelia, according to court documents. The agents detained five Trinidad nationals in May, three of whom were on their way to work in a van registered to Winston Service Contractors, according to court documents.
Most of the workers had traveled to the U.S. on tourist visas, according to court documents. Morrison told agents that all of the men had provided Social Security numbers, but a former office worker alleged that Lenny Dartez and Morrison knew the immigrants were illegal and processed their payroll information separately from other employees, according to court documents.
On top of all that, Rep. Dartez recently hit a pedestrian when she made an improper lane-change, and had been involved in two other vehicle incidents–one a serious motorcycle crash, the other a DWI.
Will she get a pass on her “Buckwheat” moment? It wouldn’t be the first time. Remember California Democrat Cruz Bustamante’s n-word incident? If these Democrat politicians spewing epithets were white, the grievance mobsters would be crying institutional racism at the top of their lungs. When minorities are doing the slurring, though, the p.c. police are more than willing to chalk it up to thoughtless “slips of the tongue” and “accidents.” (Contrast with macaca-gate.)
Watch the national media coverage. Or rather, the lack thereof. Double standards and business as usual…
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Commenter legalbgl: “Eddie Murphy also did a skit where he said ‘Merry Christmas God Dammit!’ Is that going to be Carla Dartez’s holiday greeting?”
No word yet on whether Dartez has made any “Velvet Jones” jokes.
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Gee Etan, it looks like you’re trying to say black people aren’t capable of free though and reason…according to statistics. Look at what you chose to block quote. If you wanna spit out some type of opinion on the inherant intelligence of black people, then be a man and spit it out. Nobody on this thread argued that Black people aren’t overwhelmingly democratic. I’m saying black people are overwhelmingly democratic. Either you are arguing against somebody that doesn’t exit(there’s pills for that), or you’re trying to make a comment on the ability of minorities to think and reason in general. If the former is the case, then have guts to spit it out.
I think we can all be thankful that Carla Dartez did come across any old Amos and Andy tapes.
didn’t come across
Clueless – well she’s a politician.
She bought a tape? More likely a DVD that she couldn’t get into her BetaMax…
“Good manners” has been defined as the art of making others comfortable. They go a long way in this world. Respect for others’ mothers might make you inclined to refer to her as “Mrs Boykin” rather than Buckwheat or Sweetie anyway.
Exactly AlohaGuy.
Gee Etan, it looks like you’re trying to say black people aren’t capable of free though and reason…according to statistics. Look at what you chose to block quote. If you wanna spit out some type of opinion on the inherant intelligence of black people, then be a man and spit it out. Nobody on this thread argued that Black people aren’t overwhelmingly democratic. I’m saying black people are overwhelmingly democratic. Either you are arguing against somebody that doesn’t EXIST(there’s pills for that), or you’re trying to make a comment on the ability of minorities to think and reason in general. If the LATTER is the case, then have guts to spit it out.
Buck–Let’s try to make this clearer for you since your having a little difficulty grasping my logic.
Black people are overwhelmingly democratic.
Democrats are in MY OPINION (you are allowed to have an opinion here I hope) irrational.
Got it?
Oh, dakine, Etan is my given name, not some obscure handle. Sorry, I’m NOT giving up my last name, although you’d probably love that.
Etan, I honestly can’t think of anything I care less about than your last name.
dakine, funny, I feel the same way about your opinion.
Probably a good thing Etan, since IMO you’re a tool.
A little CONVALUTED Etan, but I apologize if I misstook your intentions.
Some things like irony, sarcasm and double entendres don’t come across well in print. Again, a benefit of the doubt should usually be given, so I humbly apologize for thinking you were a cowardly bigot. I’ll cancel the call to Jesse and Al. sarcasm intended.
I wholeheartedly stand behind my prior post about black democrats being accused of being slave like. That’s bull, and an insulting generalization.
Dakine and I usually agree, even though he’s a Guiliani guy and I’m a Obama guy(since Gore won’t step up). Some ideas and opinions cross political lines, and it’s not always about Democrat/republican black/white.
On a lighter note, I wish Eddie Murphy would go back to being funny. Maybe he should go back to doing standup, and use some of the material he’s acquired over the past 15-20 yrs.(Kids, divorce, drag queens, Pluto Nash).
PMYMHMMFSWGAD, darkine.
Buck, Thanks for meeting me half-way (intellectually speaking I mean)
1st off, I’ve used “Buckwheat” many a times, whether aimed at a friend or a Doofus, but I’ve never considered it to be racist. And I’ve never used it on anyone of the female persuasion – That’s sort of like using “Pippi”, for lack of a better word, on a guy. Oh well, I guess times are a-changing and race-baiters will latch on to any and every word to squeeze what they can from it.
More importantly, enquiring minds want to know:
What is a limosine liberal democrat doing at Wal-Mart? Haven’t the Donk elites pounded the meme that Wal-Mart is racist & oppressive?
Then this idiot buys a tape, well known for expletives, to do what? For entertainment (vicarious racism) or self-ejumacation (how to talk jive in 60 mins)?
In any case, every one of her excuses fails the smell test: How on earth does one think to thank a elderly citizen without due respect? Like “Ma’am” or “Miss”, especially in the deep South?
Heck, my mom gets upset at anyone, but her close friends calling her by just her 1st name. Especially from people half her age. The word that comes to mind is patronizing, all the more insulting, for a local civil rights hero that was helping out.
Then again, given that this is the deep South, I guess our modern day Scarlet was just trying to be hip and keepin’ it real.
I hope that the people of Louisiana will wake up and get off the DNC plantation and send more conservatives to back up Bobby Jindal.
Kayne West:I hate the way they portray us in the media. Carla Dartez doesn’t care about Buckwheat!
For those of you who don’t see the hypocrisy in the lack of negative coverage for democrat politicians who slip on these sorts of banana peels vs. the over saturation of negative media coverage regarding republican politicians who do the same…macaca vs. buckwheat will be as good a litmus test as any:
Buckwheat=Dartez indicated she did not realize that the term could be interpreted as a racial slur.
Macaca=Allen said that the word had no derogatory meaning for him and that he was sorry.
Unless democrat Daretz is drummed off the stage by the national media for her statement, as republican Allen of Virginia was, well…then chalk up another one for the liberal, biased media.
Joe Biden’s racial tangos will not be held against him come re-election time, just as no one in the national media is making an issue out of Hillary’s past Indian/American remarks in St. Louis as she stumps for the vote. However, George Allen will get his head summarily shot off the next time he throws his hat into the ring.
Yeah, Carla, but what’s really in your heart? Beware of Democrats who will “fight” for you.
I think Mr Boykin is absolutely right in not supporting her. There is no place for that sort of thing in this day and time. This is just my opinion, but I think most liberals look on minorities this way – just something to be used as a means to an end.
But I have to love it when the chickens come home to roost.
Assuming that saying something offensive proves that a person is a racist, is the arguement liberals use all the time to tar Republicans. It’s wrong when they do it, and it’s wrong for us to do it.
We should be, along with other things, using this situation to try to show that to our liberal friends.
Yeah, I know. It’s like trying to teach a pig to sing; all you get is covered in mud and an annoyed pig.
By the numbers:
1 – “Buckwheat” by itself is NOT a racial slur, unless used in the context of snarky condensation between people of differing races.
2 – Gotcha moments involving non-PC verbal gaffes should not, IMHO, be career killers. Consistent poor performance in the execution of assigned duties SHOULD be.
3 – I am sick and tired of people trying to throw down the Race Card to advance their agenda, visit some “payback” upon someone they don’t care for (politically or otherwise), or other use to deflect the spotlight away from something that they, in fact did.
4 – Regardless of political party affiliation, anybody caught in a poor light like this should apologize ONCE, being sincere about it, to the offended party alone.
5 – I could personally care less what the NAA”L”CP says and does as they obviously don’t care about black conservatives.
There is no Number Six.
7 – I’m glad to see Eddie Murphy’s name out there again in something that doesn’t pertain to transvestites or lousy movie roles.
Okay, I can stop now.
itzWicks, I think I’m a fan. Please post more often.
Gee a racial slur and even worse, she shops at the sweatshop known as Walmart. Tsk ..tsk…