re: #141 Stonemason

… (and if you want to think that the majority of Americans are racist, go right ahead, I think you are wrong),…

Without offering up any judgement about percentages, I will say that the good ol’ boy racism is more abundant than we would like… this just off the wires:

Mayor quits after furor over Obama slur

The mayor of an upstate New York village has resigned after he was secretly recorded using a racial slur that mocked President Obama’s campaign slogan.

Mark Nadeau told a meeting filled with protesters Tuesday that he was not a racist and was stepping down as Cobleskill mayor because the controversy was hurting his family. He also apologized for saying anything that stirred hostility.

“My family is number one,’’ Nadeau said. “Anybody who knows me knows I am not a racist.’’

The college and farming community near Albany has been in turmoil since the Cobleskill highway superintendent released an audio recording earlier this month. Nadeau, a white Republican, can be heard using the slur in a sarcastic play on the Obama slogan “Change.’’ Another town official can be heard using the slur to deride Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

There were plenty of people protesting against the mayor, but I am tempted to chalk that up to the fact the community has a college in it.