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Jesse "Hymie Town" Jackson & "Freddy’s Fashion Mart" Sharpton
MINNEAPOLIS – A county commissioner from northern Minnesota has been critized by community members for saying he would go as far as to support slavery if his constituents wanted him to.
Commissioner Keith Nelson’s comment came during a St. Louis County Board debate in February over a proposed county smoking ban, but didn’t gain widespread attention until local media reported it could be viewed on the online video site YouTube.
If “the people in my district had voted for slavery, and if the vast majority had, and I was representing them, the answer is yes, I would have voted for it,” Nelson said at the meeting.
That prompted a question from fellow commissioner Bill Kron.
“I said, ‘There are some issues of conscience where the majority may not be right. For example, would you have voted for slavery if the majority of your constituents would have?’” Kron recalled Wednesday.
When Nelson said yes, “everyone’s jaws sort of dropped,” Kron said.
Nelson, who has apologized for the comment, said he opposed the smoking ban because most of his constituents wanted him to and he always followed the will of his constituents. He said in retrospect that he would resign his post rather than support slavery.
The Rev. Denita Williams, pastor of St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church, said Nelson’s remark was insensitive.
“He doesn’t seem to understand, and for him to hold a public office and not understand that is offensive,” Williams said. She said Nelson must offer a public, unqualified apology, “and he also needs to take a diversity class.”
Now that the Imus story has had it’s fifteen minutes the Jackson and Sharpton Racist Hypocrisy Tour may have another destination: Minnesota.
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