If she is black and bitter why is an apology needed?? If not, apologize for the bitter part.
On Jan 18, 4:05 am, "liberal mike532 !" <[email protected]> wrote: > Tanner apologizes for saying he liked his coffee ‘Mary Frances Berry > style — black and bitter.’»http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/15/tanner-apology/ > Earlier > this week, the Justice Department’s inspector general and Office of > Professional Responsibility released a report laying out former > official Bradley Schlozman’s illegal and illicit activities at the > department. In one particularly “horrifying” incident described in > the > report, Scholzman forwarded around an e-mail from then-Voting Section > Chief John Tanner that contained a racial remark about an African- > American colleague: > > In that incident in August 2004, Voting Section Chief John Tanner > sent > an e-mail to Schlozman asking Schlozman to bring coffee for him to a > meeting both were scheduled to attend. Schlozman replied asking > Tanner > how he liked his coffee. Tanner’s response was, “Mary Frances Berry > style - black and bitter.” Berry is an African-American who was the > Chairperson of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights from November 1993 > until late 2004. Schlozman forwarded the e-mail chain to several > Department officials (including Principal DAAG Bradshaw) but not > Acosta, with the comment, “Y’all will appreciate Tanner’s response.” > Acosta said that when he was made aware of the incident, he required > Schlozman to make a written apology to him for his role in forwarding > the e-mail and that Schlozman did so. > > TPMmuckraker reports today that Tanner has sent a letter of apology > to > Berry, claiming that he only used the phrase because he had recently > heard an African-American customer at a coffee shop order coffee > “black and sweet — like me.” --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
