Roger Stone Uses Racial Slur on Radio Show (NYT)

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/us/politics/roger-stone-mo-kelly-slur.html

Roger Stone Uses Racial Slur on Radio Show
Mr. Stone, while being questioned about the commutation of his sentence by President Trump, used a racial slur in referring to his interviewer, who is Black.
By Aimee Ortiz and Marie Fazio
July 19, 2020

During a live radio show on Saturday, Roger Stone, the political operative who was spared a prison sentence this month by his friend President Trump, used a racial slur while speaking with the host, who is Black.

Mr. Stone was speaking on the “The Mo’Kelly Show," a program based at a Los Angeles radio station and hosted by Morris W. O’Kelly, known as Mo’Kelly.

On the show, Mr. O’Kelly questioned the role that Mr. Stone’s relationship and proximity to the president played in the commutation of his sentence.

The host asked: “There are thousands of people treated unfairly daily, how your number just happened to come up in the lottery, I am guessing it was more than just luck, Roger, right?”

Mr. Stone, who was speaking by phone, responded by muttering: “arguing with this Negro”; the beginning of his sentence was hard to hear. It sounded as if Mr. Stone were not speaking directly into the phone, but rather to himself or someone in the room with him.

When Mr. O’Kelly asked him to repeat what he said, Mr. Stone let out a sigh, then remained silent for almost 40 seconds. Acting as if the connection had been severed, Mr. Stone vehemently denied that he used the slur.

“I did not, you’re out of your mind,” Mr. Stone told the host.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

1. I hate assholes and stone is a huge asshole

A psychopath like the rest of them with R's next to thier names.

That R needs to be made a badge of shame and shorthand for the psychopaths they are.

[Greybnk48]

2. How about we address him as POS Stone instead of Mr. Stone?

He's subhuman.

[live love laugh]

3. I'd venture to say "negro" isn't a racial slur in and of itself

But referring to somebody as “this negro” in a conversation or exchange is rac-ist.