A city council member in Tarrant, Alabama, casually blurted out a shocking racist slur at a meeting on Monday, video shows. (Watch it below.)
Tommy Bryant apparently used the term when talking about council member Veronica Freeman, who is Black, according to the Daily Beast.
“Do we have a house nigger in here? Do we? Do we? Will she please stand up?” Bryant said.
Just before Bryant made that comment, a member of the public questioned him about his wife using the same slur on social media, Bama Politics reported.
“The video speaks for itself,” said Mayor Wayman Newton, who is Black, per the Daily Beast.
Bryant accused Newton of using the term previously to describe Freeman and said he repeated it to amplify the gravity of it, AL.com reported.
Tensions have simmered between Bryant and Newton, Bama Politics noted. The Daily Beast also reported a “power struggle” between Newton and the white ex-police chief, Dennis Reno.
The Alabama Democratic Party demanded that Bryant resign, per AL.com
Tarrant, Alabama city council member Tommy Bryant has come under fire after he stood up and loudly asked, “Do we have a house nigger in here?” during a city council meeting https://t.co/5HqTZ3WV4m pic.twitter.com/xo1rjgqSGy — philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) July 20, 2021
Berry2Droid on July 21st, 2021 at 14:15 UTC »
"Utters"...
He stood from his chair, gestured directly at a quiet, black woman sitting at the end of the same table 3 seats away and loudly exclaimed during a (barely) heated exchange "Let's talk about the N word! Do we have a house ni**er in here?!" And then proceeded to repeat himself.
Yeah.... he "uttered" it alright.
definitelytheA on July 21st, 2021 at 12:39 UTC »
What I find the most upsetting is that:
1) The words spilled out of his mouth in a way that makes it obvious this is his native (racist) tongue
2) The woman he is speaking to and about remains so calm. She’s heard this so many times before that she’s fairly immune when someone “goes there”
3) No one….not one person stood up and told man he was a despicable, racist mtherfcker
osaucyone on July 21st, 2021 at 12:16 UTC »
So they don't want to be taught racism is bad, but obviously there's a lot of them who really need to be taught that racism is bad.