Oct 27, 2023
Black Woman Called N-Word By Hecklers At Council Meeting, Council Does Nothing
Black Woman Called N-Word By Hecklers At Council Meeting, Council Does Nothing
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A council meeting, and a black woman,
she's talking to council.
She's called racial slurs.
She's told to go back to Africa.
She says council did
nothing to protect her.
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Put her up full mass.
Hell of a story.
This happened in San Bernardino,
California.
Amy Malone is her name.
She spoke in person at the city
council meeting last week October 18.
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Two men on Zoom interrupted
her using derogatory terms,
including the N word,
NBC Los Angeles reported.
The audio was muted in a video of
the meeting due to the offensive language,
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but NBC Los Angeles confirmed that one of
the men could be heard telling Malone,
go back to Africa, and
both men repeatedly used the N word.
Wow, Miss Malone reacted.
She immediately addressed officials
saying that they should apologize for
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the hecklers actions instead
of being ordered to wait by
Mayor Pro Tem Fred Shorett,
that's according to the video.
It's a technical,
I don't have any control over that,
and certainly that is inappropriate.
I couldn't agree with you more,
end quote, he said.
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She responded, thank you, thank you.
To me,
that should have been the first thing said
to every African American in this place.
It's not just a me thing,
this is an everybody thing.
Nothing like that.
Nothing like that should happen, nothing!
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And I wanna say this,
I echo her statement, but
that's offensive to
everyone who's not racist.
So, of course,
that's offensive to the target audience.
It's also offensive to those
who are allied with us.
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So, yes, an apology should go
directly to the target audience.
We are sorry, ma'am, and to everyone who's
part of the African American community,
we're gonna make sure
that never happens again.
We're gonna cut that feed off, they would
not be able to participate here anymore.
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And to everyone who's here,
we apologize for the offense.
Real simple, real simple.
There's more.
She told NBC Los Angeles
that she is disappointed by
how city officials
addressed the situation.
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Quote, I was hoping that
the people in charge were going to
take control and
really stop everything for a moment and
shut it down, and
allow me to get myself together.
And that's not what happened, she said.
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Per the outlet,
local police are probing the incident and
have gathered the men's IP addresses.
In addition,
the local NAACP chapter chimed in and
slammed the disgusting comments.
Speaking to NBC Los Angeles, Malone said
she wants the hecklers to be charged.
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So let's put up the mayor, Helen Tran
is her name, held an event on Monday to
publicly condemn the remarks,
the Los Angeles Times reported.
The city also issued an apology and
added that it is reviewing its
remote Comet protocols to identify
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steps that can be taken to prevent
this from happening, all right?
The mayor will go on to say, quote, last
Wednesday does not define us as a city.
In part, per times,
that is not who we are.
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Tonight we stand together
as a unified community,
because hateful comments by two
individuals are not a reflection
of what the city of San Bernardino is or
what we stand for.
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And I agree,
there are good people in your community.
There are actually some good people
inside of your operational government.
But here's an approach I recommend
to the leadership of the city.
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Well, things like this happen.
Instead of saying we're investigating,
we're looking into it,
we have their IP addresses, we're gonna
see what can be done in the future,
possible, perhaps, maybe.
Instead of doing that,
be very clear about what will and
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will not happen in your city,
be very clear about the penalty for
those who have already violated
decorum and possibly law.
Be very clear that you're willing to
make them, those individuals, public.
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You know why?
Because they were on a public channel.
They were providing public comment.
They no longer have right to privacy.
So how about you blast their pictures and
names for everyone to see?
You have the legal right to do that.
They decided to offer those
comments in a public forum.
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They did.
That would be a start.
All right, Jackson, thoughts here?
>> Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you have to
put your foot down in a way to show that
there's consequences for things like this.
Because we're continuing to have to
deal with racism in this country,
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given the fact that a lot of those
are the founding pillars of the nation.
It's also just an unfortunate negative
aspect of the human condition.
It's part of how we group ourselves
together, it's part of our tribal nature,
but it's not something
that we can't overcome.
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And so, right now, unfortunately, we're
living in an era where you can't point and
be like,
this is all because of Donald Trump, but
just the style of his being who he is.
Nothing really matter.
Like you got Marjorie Taylor Greene
on the floor of Congress showing
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private pictures of everything's
just nuts, everything's crazy.
So, hey, why not go to this public
space and say what I feel like?
So just in regard to how you mentioned,
you gotta be able to be no, no,
we're not gonna have that,
because people can't think that it's okay.
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And we do live in an era where this is,
unfortunately, becoming a bigger issue,
so.
>> Speaker 1: Yep, it's becoming more and
more proclaimed in public spaces
where children are,
where the ears of everyone can be.
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That's the big difference that we're
seeing at council meetings, etc.
These things are not happening
just in private context,
they're happening in public
context more and more.
All right,
we'll bring you updates as they come.
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