'Do we have a house n-- in here?': Alabama councilman refers to Black colleague with racial slur
A city council member in Alabama has come under fire for blurting out a racist slur Monday during a city council meeting. Not only did his inappropriate comment shock everyone at the meeting, but he allegedly used the term when talking about a fellow council member. As if using the slur wasn’t bad enough, Tommy Bryant, a council member in Tarrant, used it to describe Veronica Freeman, a Black colleague.
“Do we have a house n— in here? Do we? Do we? Will she please stand up?” Bryant said. The racist comment came moments after a member of the audience questioned Bryant about his wife using the same slur on Facebook, Bama Politics reported. Shortly after Bryant used the slur, Freeman can be seen sobbing into her hands, visibly upset as she left the meeting. Bama Politics posted the clip on YouTube, which quickly garnered attention on social media.
Of course, Bryant, like other conservatives, refused to acknowledge his actions or apologize. He instead defended his use of the racial slur by accusing the town’s mayor, Mayor Wayman Newton, of using the term to describe Freeman before, claiming that he only repeated it to amplify its use. "I heard a comment from the (unclear) where someone made that comment. And I thought it be proper to go ahead and bring it to light," Bryant said in an interview with NBC News affliate WVTM 13. "The mayor called Veronica Freeman a stupid h-n. He doesn't need to use that term in front of everybody, and I thought the city ought to know what kind of terminology the mayor uses.”
Bryant continued on to defend his actions by claiming his use of the term and Newton’s were different so it was okay for him to repeat it. “He said it in a derogatory manner, I said it so people would know what the mayor said,” Bryant said. “The mayor was being derogatory toward Veronica Freeman when he said that.”
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