Link to copy of resignation letter here
Another crazy OLD white racist…
Wolfeboro Police Commissioner Robert Copeland listens Thursday May 15, 2014 in Wolfeboro, N.H. as town residents ask for his resignation after being overheard calling President Barack Obama the N-word at a restaurant. Photo: Jim Cole, AP
Wolfeboro residents demand commissioner resign over racial slur
It’s time for this dude to retire. And I don’t want to hear how he’s old and set in his ways. Or he is what he is. There’s NO PLACE for this racist POS to be serving as Police Commissioner, after admitting he called a sitting UNITED STATES PRESIDENT a NIGGER, and he proudly claims it.
Nor do I want to hear how it’s his First Amendment rights. Actions and words have CONSEQUENCES!
Town’s White police Official Calls President Obama the “N” Word.
“I believe I did use the ‘N’ word in reference to the current occupant of the Whitehouse,” Copeland said in the email to his fellow police commissioners, part of which he forwarded to O’Toole. “For this, I do not apologize — he meets and exceeds my criteria for such.”
KUDOS to the all the Citizens of Wolfeboro for speaking out against Copeland. Rest assured, Robert Copeland’s RACIST comments about President Obama didn’t start and won’t end with the president.
UPDATED
Photo of Wolfeboro Town hall Meeting
Longer video of Wolfeboro Townhall Meeting. Watch it here.
Truth!
Just so sad! She has eyes but does not see.
Daughter of ex-Wolfeboro official who uttered ‘n-word’ defends her father
http://www.unionleader.com/article/20140521/NEWS06/140529873
The daughter of the Wolfeboro police official who resigned Sunday amid a nationwide furor after calling President Obama a racial slur defended her 82-year-old father as a “passionate” but “curmudgeonly” man whose private remarks shouldn’t be used to paint him as a bigot.
“My father is by no means a racist,” Kimberly Silacci, 46, said of Robert Copeland, the police commissioner who admitted to using the N-word to describe Obama in a restaurant in March. Until Sunday night, Copeland had refused to step down.
“He does have strong feelings against our president. He doesn’t care for him. In fact, he feels he is endangering our country,” Silacci said of her dad, a Republican. “That comment was an attempt to express to a very close friend some very strong feelings. But it was not to imply feelings he has for people of color. He is one of the most loving individuals.”
Copeland had admitted he used the slur, adding Obama “meets and exceeds my criteria for such.”But Silacci said her father, at the urging of family members, relented and resigned to dull the backlash against the tiny Lake Winnipesaukee resort town. Town Manager David Owen said he’s getting calls and emails from people across the country saying they’re canceling travel plans.
Silacci said her parents “really couldn’t sleep at night thinking that something he had done was hurting the town.” She said her father is a Belmont native who worked in the auto industry near Detroit and retired to Wolfeboro more than two decades ago.
“We all told him, ‘Dad you should have been more careful. What were you thinking?’” she said. “But I really feel he was so misrepresented. … Don’t we all know a curmudgeonly old individual who uses some colorful language at times?”
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How was he misrepresented? He doubled down and made himself very clear. What Wolfeboro citizens did was set an example. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. It was a teachable moment for the country.
Thank you, Wolfeboro! Thank you so much!
UPDATED: Wolfeboro police commissioner resigns over use of N-word to refer to Obama; townspeople react
http://www.unionleader.com/article/20140519/NEWS06/140519085
WOLFEBORO — The police commissioner who came under fire after slinging a racial slur about President Obama, who then refused to apologize after an enraged community demanded his removal, has resigned.
In a statement released Monday, Wolfeboro Police Commission Chair Joe Balboni, Jr., confirmed that Commissioner Bob Copeland tendered his resignation in a brief email he received at 10:34 p.m. Sunday night. The e-mail stated, “Dear Commission Chairman Balboni, I resign. Bob Copeland.”
Copeland, 82, was elected to his second three-year term in March. Praised by some for his leadership and public spirit, Copeland came under fire after resident Jane O’Toole overheard him calling President Obama a racial slur while dining at a local restaurant in March. O’Toole ultimately complained to town officials and the police commission.
Last week, more than 100 people turned out, many of whom called for Copeland’s resignation. Copeland is a retired corporate attorney who also served as an officer with the U.S. Navy.
Shortly after hearing of Copeland’s resignation, O’Toole said she looked forward to moving on with her life, and that one thing the community has learned is that one person can make a difference.
“Halleluja,” O’Toole said Monday. “I’m happy he’s done this, not only for the town but for him. He has now hopefully stopped the enormous international train [of attention] that’s affecting the town. We can get back to business in this beautiful resort community and we can stop talking about this,” she said, adding, “and, hopefully, we’ve taught our children a lesson that you can stand up and make a difference.”
Coverage of the incident has garnered international attention. On Friday, Police Chief Stuart Chase said both the dispatch center and town hall had been deluged by angry callers, some of whom mistakenly thought that the police commissioner was a sworn officer. He said calls came from as far away as Alaska and Canada.
O’Toole said she never anticipated the story would go viral and gain as much attention as it has.
“I wrote this little letter to the town and the town started a groundswell of support,” she said.
In a statement Friday, Town Manager David Owen and the Board of Selectmen called for Copeland’s resignation. Former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who owns a vacation home in Wolfeboro, also called for Copeland to resign.
Commissioner Balboni said Copeland’s decision was in the best interest of the town, the commission and the police department.
Wow!
Wolfeboro NH has taught the country how to handle racism. They weren’t playing and didn’t back down. Copeland thought his defiance was going to intimidate them? Not this time, buddy! God bless Wolfeboro New Hampshire for restoring that glimmer of hope!
In Wolfeboro NH, the young, middle age to older Americans ALL wanted Copeland gone and GOT IT!
Police Commissioner Resigns Over Slur
NPR, MSNBC- Chris Matthews is speaking on Copeland resignation now. NH made major headlines, Mitt Romney and the citizens know Copeland’s behavior is staining not only the town of Wolfeboro, but the entire state of NH.
Police Commissioner Resigns But Questions Remain
Whitney White was there. She’s one of only a handful of black residents in the predominantly white town. She grew up in Brooklyn, but went to high school here at Brewster Academy and now works for the school.
I wouldn’t say that this is a racist place. Like, I feel comfortable. If I didn’t I wouldn’t have come back here. These people have become my family. I don’t have any blood or anyone here.
But White says she closely watched Copeland at the meeting.
His arms were folded, he was looking at his watch. He was tilted back in his chair. He didn’t even pay attention, he was doodling on a paper. It’s just like, you have this many people here talking to you asking you, “Are you going to apologize?” Like, just do the right thing and resign so it won’t affect the town like it’s affecting it right now. And the way he came off is like he could care less.
AUDIO: http://nhpr.org/post/police-commissioner-resigns-questions-remain
Right there—>Dr Martin Luther King: Let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire!
Yep…Good Job Wolfeboro!
*DAPS*
Between this 82 year old buzzard and that 81 year old Donald Sterling…well I just don’t know. This is not to say all octogenarians are bad and crazy.
They NEEDED a wake-up CALL, and they got it.
@CNN @MSNBC @ABC @NBC @CBS
We got ACTION!
Copeland resigns after calling PBO n word! Wolfeboro citizens wasn’t having it!
That’s how you ROLL!
Rev Al covered Wolfeboro. Thank you Politics Nation!
YES! Thank you Politics Nation!!!!!
Al Sharpton:
Congratulations, Wolfeboro residents! 3 Chics Salutes you. Your actions should serve as notice to any other town leaders who carry this kind of disdain and hate in their hearts for another HUMAN BEGING.
This wasn’t just about the black president, this was about the other 20 black citizens in Wolfeboro too!
We got ACTION, folks!
Wolfeboro citizens kicked his ass to the moon and sent him PACKING!
Yes mam, and they told him Don’t let the door hit ya, where the good Lord split ya!
So long….farewell
Auf Wiedersehen
ADIOS MOFO!
Updated: 2:35 p.m. Monday, May 19, 2014 | Posted: 2:35 p.m. Monday, May 19, 2014
Police commissioner resigns in wake of Obama slur
Robert Copeland, 82, resigned Sunday night from the post to which he was re-elected in March, Board of Selectmen Chair Linda Murray said, putting to rest a controversy that drew national attention and sparked impassioned debate in this resort town of 6,300 on the shore of Lake Winnipesaukee.
“The town is pleased,” Murray said Monday. “This gives us the opportunity to move on. We are a very accepting community that really takes care of each other.”
Copeland has not returned several calls seeking comment.
http://www.wsbtv.com/ap/ap/us/police-commissioner-resigns-in-wake-of-obama-slur/nfzQb/
Wolfeboro, N.H. Police Commissioner Robert Copeland, who called President Obama the “n-word,” has submitted his resignation, Wolfeboro police confirm.
WOLFEBORO, N.H. — Town officials confirmed Monday that the 82-year-old police commissioner who was heard publicly calling President Obama the n-word — sparking nationwide outrage — has tendered his resignation.
Robert Copeland, 82, the head of Wolfeboro’s three-member police commission, turned in his resignation to the town manager and police chief Monday morning, police officials confirmed.
His resignation comes as several of New Hampshire’s most prominent politicians — including Sens. Kelly Ayotte (R) and Jeanne Shaheen (D) and Gov. Maggie Hassan — had called for Copeland’s ouster.
Read more at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/05/19/n-h-police-commissioner-who-used-racial-slur-in-reference-to-obama-resigns/
This is a VERBAL RESIGNATION. Pen it, DUDE!
from the article:
Robert Copeland, 82, the head of Wolfeboro’s three-member police commission, turned in his resignation to the town manager and police chief Monday morning, police officials confirmed.
Yes, Yahtc I saw it and posted
Thanks so much to both of you for keeping me up to date on this news :)
Major props for Wolfeboro NH! That’s the way to do IT!
Yep Copeland penned his resignation! I posted it in the thread.
Wolfeboro citizens DROPPED it:
Good job, Wolfeboro citizens!
bwa ha ha ha ha
Wolfeboro DROPPED IT!
*BOOM*!
N.H. Police Commissioner Who Called Obama The N-Word Resigns
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Breaking . Wolfeboro Police Commissioner Robert Copeland resigns after flap regarding racist comments. via @JoshMcElveen
12:09 PM – 19 May 2014
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/wolfeboro-commissioner-resigns
Of course Copeland hasn’t apologized. And DON’T HOLD YOUR BREATH!
A feeling of disgust in N.H. town after official’s use of racial slur against Obama”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2014/05/18/ddd9aa1e-dede-11e3-810f-764fe508b82d_story.html
Wolfeboro Police Commission Full Meeting 5:15:14
Transcription of one of the speeches:
I am a junior at Kingswood High School. I’d like to make a couple remarks tonight about the commissioner’s racial remarks.
“And, ahead of time, I want to say that I embrace fully your First Amendment Right to say what you’ve said, and I hope everyone here in the room will embrace my First Amendment Right to say a really horrible racial term because this is a term we need to be injected into this discourse.
“From what I’ve heard Wolfeboro seems to have come to a consensus on the despicable nature of Commissioner Copeland’s racial remarks this past March. However, it’s not simply the icky nature of what he’s saying that constitutes the greater problem with him remaining in office. It’s the implications about that later comment about Mr. Obama meeting his imagined criteria for the use of the word “n……r.” [applause] Listen to his second more pernicious comment again: “I believe I did use the word, the n-word in reference to the current occupant of the White House. For this I do not apologize. He meets and exceeds my criteria for such.”
“I’d like to ask you Mr. Copeland: What do you mean by this? First thing I’d like to call attention to is the passive-aggressive nature of quote “the current occupant of the White House.” Are you willing to acknowledge the twice-elected President of the United States? [applause]
“The second question, of course, what could you possibly have been thinking when you made reference to the criteria for “n……r”?? for the criteria for hate speech?? Pardon me, but I see in your quote a bad picture of New Hampshire. I see the potential for America to see New Hampshire as a state of scared, enfeebled, old White men. [laughter and applause] old White men who watched the rise to power of the most influential Black man of our generation and see an uppity negro who fails to fall into the subservient “step and fetch it” model that you seem to be telling here sir. And that’s NOT who we are. That’s not what we are in New Hampshire; that’s not who we are in Wolfeboro;[loud applause blocks out words]
“I’d love to know: When did Mr. Obama enter the fold of being a “n……r”?? Was it when he went from a lower middle-class background to attend Harvard University? Was it when he got eight million people in this country health insurance? Was it when he came out in support of marriage rights for everyone in this country?
“Or was it simply when he had the temerity to rise above his station as a Black man?
“Your comment that there’s some criteria a Black man has to avoid, lest he be qualified as a “n…..r” portrays you as racist far better than using the term ever could have. Given the attitudes that you Mr. Copeland have so clearly broadcast and shown blatant disrespect toward the office of the Presidency, towards our African American countrymen, and collectively towards the members of this community that you have so ill-represented.
“It’s time that you take a semi-respectable bow from public life and resign your post on the commission. [applause]
“You’ve revealed yourself to the public eye, and it’s not a face that I want representing my town; it’s not a face that these folks want representing their town; and it’s not a face that we want representing our justice system.
“Please, Mr. Copeland, you’ve revealed your incapability to hold () office. Please do us a favor and come up to this microphone right now and apologize for what you’ve said. And, then, if you really want to go through with it, please resign tonight. Thank you.” [applause]
Was this the young guy Matthew? He was on FIRE! Everyone brought it. They kicked ass and took names. I was mesmerized. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.
Hey Copeland, and any other member of that community
Good gif.
http://www.wcsh6.com/story/news/local/2014/05/16/racist-words-police-officer-nh/9162653/
60 years since Brown vs. BOE. And yes; it certainly was all about RACE & inequality. The fight continues folks. We’ve always had to fight for what is just, moral and humanly RIGHT.No one’s gonna hand us anything!
The citizens of Wolfeboro need to KEEP the pressure on Copeland. We can tweet and blog all we like, but the biggest influence will be the citizens to KEEP THE PRESSURE on. Tourism and buisnesses profits are at stake.
Not to mention the town’s reputation. Copeland’s words will leave an UGLY stain on Wolfeboro. Is it spelled Wolfeborough or Wolfeboro?
All of the articles say “Wolfeboro.”
After seeing all the racism directed at PBO I lost hope for the country but then… a growing hope …in New Hampshire, y’all.
since this bigot was elected, the citizens have to keep up the pressure on this hateful man and chase his ass out. They’ve got to do better in their next selection.
This is what happens when a majority rules, though it hinges on the character, morals, ethics, and a CONSCIENCE of the one in leadership. And apparently, Copeland is not evolved.
Absolutely, Ametia!
If he doesn’t resign the citizens need to start a petition and somehow get something like a recall going or whatever is legally possible!!!
It is just a good thing that this guy’s racism is no longer covert racism. He certainly became an overt racist when he was overheard saying the N-word by Jane O’Toole. I wonder what “refreshments” he had been having at the restaurant.
And, not he has admitted it in writing!
Prolly ETOH, and that’ s some serious TRUTH SERUM. This type of refreshment really refreshes the inhibitions button!
Also, these teabaggers, they’re not EVOLVED either. Fighting for the good ole days…
Spelling correction:
This: And, not he has admitted it in writing!
should be
And, now he has admitted it in writing.
OMG Did you see this? Sit your $5 ass down, before I make change with you.
He was on point. NH restored my hope. No doubt about it.
Citizens of NH wasn’t luke warm about how they felt. It was full throated, forceful and with fire.
Now he really knows how to run his show and tell it like it is!
Thanks for posting this Ametia!
Yes, the citizens who are writing editorials, calling, and attending the town hall meetings are proof postive that ACTION SPEAKS LOUDER THAN WORDS.
Sitting behind a keyboard and typing is a beginning, but with this type of racism and bigotry in a small town, it takes face-to-face confrontation to voice this kind of disapproval
KUDOS, WOLFEBORO CITIZENS FOR KICKING ASSES AND TAKING NAME.
LOL! I have never seen a group of white people roll a bigot like this before. Just when I thought all was lost…here comes Wolfeboro New Hampshire!
Boom Shaka Laka!
LOL Damn SKIPPY.
We call out the Toms, coons, buck dancin shit-eating, grinning & skinning & shucking & jiving house negroes. We’re the equal opportunity call’em like we see’em patrol.
And that’s how 3 CHICS ROLL!
*daps*
Wolfeboro citizens shining a spot light on racism in their town. So proud of them!
LOL Ring that bell and shine that LIGHT, woman.
Erin Burnett talks to Jane O’Toole who reported the New Hampshire police commissioner.
Residents Call for Police Chief’s Resignation
Thanks for these videos, SG21 Keep the pressure on this MOFO.
Why isn’t he fired? I know darn well his position isn’t a lifetime position.
Could it be there are others on the force in leadership positions that HOLD the same bigoted, racists BELIEFS as Copeland?
SG2, you ask, Why isn’t he fired?
He can’t be. He is NOT an employee.….he is ELECTED. The Town Manager can only fire EMPLOYEES.
Remember this that you posted? —
“STATEMENT REGARDING POLICE COMMISSIONER ROBERT COPELAND
“The Wolfeboro Board of Selectmen (the Town’s governing body) and Town Manager (its chief executive officer) are appalled at the language used by Commissioner Copeland relative to President Obama, and have publicly stated that we find it reprehensible and totally inconsistent with the Town’s open and welcoming character. Mr. Copeland’s views are in no way representative of the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Wolfeboro, its administration, or the men and women of the Wolfeboro Police Department.
“The Wolfeboro Police Commission is a separately elected Town board that does not fall under the jurisdiction of the Board of Selectmen or Town Manager, and there is no provision in New Hampshire State Law or the Town’s ordinances that would enable us to remove Mr. Copeland from his elected position on the Police Commission for his egregious behavior.
“Therefore, we are hopeful that Mr. Copeland will accede to the public outcry and finally do the right thing and resign from his elected position to save the Town any further embarrassment of his making.”
David Owen, Town Manager”
http://www.wolfeboronh.us/Pages/WolfeboroNH_News/01D711E0-000F8513
Ametia, you ask,“Could it be there are others on the force in leadership positions….?”
Comissioner Copeland is NOT on the police force. He is citizen who was elected to OVERSEE the police force.
SG2 posted this:
WOLFEBORO —
“The Wolfeboro Police Department’s dispatchers and the town manager’s office have fielded hundreds of phone calls and emails from as far as Alaska and Canada, reacting to reports of a police commissioner’s racist comment overheard in a restaurant.
“Many of those callers, according to Wolfeboro officials, do not understand that the police commission is a separate, elected board and not made up of sworn police officers.
http://www.newhampshire.com/article/20140516/NEWS06/140519271/-1/newhampshire
Then more of the men on the force should be speaking gout against Copeland. And the citizens of Copeland who elected this bigot in March of this year, you’re getting who you elected.
Video here:
http://www.wmur.com/news/wolfeboro-chief-dont-target-police-over-commissioners-racist-comment/26024136
Another video:
https://screen.yahoo.com/tim-ab125/wolfeboro-police-chief-commissioner-isnt-044937810.html
As you saw above, the Town Manager and ALL of the Selectmen want him to resign:
“Therefore, we are hopeful that Mr. Copeland will accede to the public outcry and finally do the right thing and resign from his elected position to save the Town any further embarrassment of his making.
“The Wolfeboro Board of Selectmen (the Town’s governing body) and Town Manager (its chief executive officer) are appalled at the language used by Commissioner Copeland relative to President Obama, and have publicly stated that we find it reprehensible and totally inconsistent with the Town’s open and welcoming character. Mr. Copeland’s views are in no way representative of the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Wolfeboro, its administration, or the men and women of the Wolfeboro Police Department.”
I have to keep reminding myself that WE THE PEOPLE have the power to VOTE & ELECT, Yahtc. It really comes down to who we put in office and what are their true motives and agenda for serving the greater good.
I am sure the citizens will find a legal way to get him out if he does not resign.
Watching them stand up and take him to task gave me goosebumps. Those folks had fire! Never underestimate the power of God. He has his people EVERYWHERE!
Oh, yeah….they will get him out. They seem like they are totally committed and will succeed. There was a lot of energy at that meeting. You can just feel it when you watch that meeting video!
“Never underestimate the power of God. He has his people EVERYWHERE!
Yes.
http://www.wcsh6.com/story/news/local/2014/05/16/racist-words-police-officer-nh/9162653/
Wolfeboro Town Hall Meeting
So there are 20 Black citizens in Wolfeboro. Does Copeland feel the same about them as he does the Black POTUS?
Excellent question.
Yahtc, it’s so OBVIOUS Copeland is defiant and knows he can’t be fired. Just look at his body posturings.
Wolfeboro inundated with calls for police commissioner to resign over use of N-word
http://www.newhampshire.com/article/20140516/NEWS06/140519271/-1/newhampshire
WOLFEBORO — The Wolfeboro Police Department’s dispatchers and the town manager’s office have fielded hundreds of phone calls and emails from as far as Alaska and Canada, reacting to reports of a police commissioner’s racist comment overheard in a restaurant.
Many of those callers, according to Wolfeboro officials, do not understand that the police commission is a separate, elected board and not made up of sworn police officers.
To clarify any murkiness, Wolfeboro Police Chief Stuart Chase held a press conference Friday afternoon, the day after hundreds of people turned out to protest Commissioner Bob Copeland’s racial slur brought to light by local resident Jane O’Toole, who complained to town officials.
Copeland was overhead at a restaurant and has acknowledged calling President Obama a “f…… n…..”, but has refused to apologize or resign.
Chase said the police and town’s phone and email inboxes have been inundated with comments responding to Copeland’s remarks.
Romney rips N.H. official’s ‘vile epithet’
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/05/romney_rips_nh_official_s_vile_epithet
The Wolfeboro, N.H., police commissioner who has stood by his comment calling President Obama a racial slur is facing a growing cascade of calls to step down, including from the tiny lakeside town’s most famous summer resident — one-time Obama opponent Mitt Romney.
“The vile epithet used and confirmed by the commissioner has no place in our community,” the former Bay State governor, who owns a home in the popular Granite State vacation spot, said in a statement to the Herald. “He should apologize and resign.”
Commissioner Bob Copeland, who is white, has thus far refused to resign — or even apologize — after he admitted calling Obama the N-word in an exchange overheard by another resident at a restaurant in March.
Copeland attended a packed police commission meeting Thursday where more than 100 people reportedly showed up, many to denounce the 82-year-old’s comment as the spotlight grew on the Lake Winnipesaukee resort town.
“I believe I did use the ‘N’ word in reference to the current occupant of the Whitehouse,” Copeland said in an email to his fellow members of the three-person police commission, according to The Associated Press. “For this, I do not apologize — he meets and exceeds my criteria for such.”
Wolfboro Citizens are NOT having it! They want the racist commissioner GONE!
Wolfboro town hall meeting.
Town’s white police official calls Obama n-word.
http://www.wcsh6.com/story/news/local/2014/05/16/racist-words-police-officer-nh/9162653/
It’s on & popping in the Wolfboro community! I have to give them major props! This is what I’m talking about. They’re an example to America!
How old is this buzzard anyway? If he doesn’t repent of the hatred he will be finding out what hell is like soon enough. God doesn’t like ugly.
Copeland is already in HELL, vitaminlover. His own pitiful, narrow-minded racist HELL.
Here is the link to Al Sharpton’s segment on this:
http://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation/watch/police-official-uses-n-word-against-obama-257965635802
Transcript of video -Al Sharpton on Politics Nation:
“Residents of a small New Hampshire town are demanding their police commission be fired after he was caught using the N-word while referring to President Obama.
“Wolfeboro police commissioner Robert Copeland is refusing to apologize for making the comment in March. A town resident overheard him at a local restaurant refer to the President as an expletive N-word.
“Copeland admitted to using the slur in a letter to his fellow commissioners writing quote:
‘I believe I did us the ‘N’ word in reference to the current occupant of the WhiteHouse [sic]. For this I do not apologize – He meets and exceeds my criteria for such.’
“Last night more than 100 residents showed up at a meeting to insist Copeland be dismissed.”
[Video shows residents speaking and asking for his resignation.]
“This last story is why I believe in growing hope.
“Yes, we still have the Donald Sterlings of the world and the Sheriff [should be Commissioner] Copeland’s, but in a little town in New Hampshire…all white…Whites came out to demand that this commissioner resign because he used the “N” word.
“All kinds of NBA players and owners voted to get rid of Mr. Sterling.
“Yes, we still have segregation in schools, but people are standing up fighting it.
“Yes, we still have bigots in this country. But, there are those that have increased the number of fighting bigotry. We have to just keep proving that there are more of us than there are of them.”
He’s old. He’s near death; and about time too.
I would rather he find a better path but that “just ain’t likely”
Looks like an old Snapping Turtle waiting to swallow his next slimy critter.
Galump!
Wolfeboro, NH is an example of how white citizens of the USA need and should RESPOND to acts of blatant RACISM.
Thank you, Rev. Al for showcasing this example on MSNBC.
New Hampshire town shocked after racist comment by Police Commissioner
Police Chief Stuart Chase spent the day defending his department when in fact this has nothing to do with him or his officers.
VIDEO:
http://www.wlbz2.com/story/news/local/2014/05/16/racist-remark-wolfeboro-police-commissioner/9184167/
“STATEMENT REGARDING POLICE COMMISSIONER ROBERT COPELAND
“The Wolfeboro Board of Selectmen (the Town’s governing body) and Town Manager (its chief executive officer) are appalled at the language used by Commissioner Copeland relative to President Obama, and have publicly stated that we find it reprehensible and totally inconsistent with the Town’s open and welcoming character. Mr. Copeland’s views are in no way representative of the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Wolfeboro, its administration, or the men and women of the Wolfeboro Police Department.
“The Wolfeboro Police Commission is a separately elected Town board that does not fall under the jurisdiction of the Board of Selectmen or Town Manager, and there is no provision in New Hampshire State Law or the Town’s ordinances that would enable us to remove Mr. Copeland from his elected position on the Police Commission for his egregious behavior. Therefore, we are hopeful that Mr. Copeland will accede to the public outcry and finally do the right thing and resign from his elected position to save the Town any further embarrassment of his making.
David Owen, Town Manager”
http://www.wolfeboronh.us/Pages/WolfeboroNH_News/01D711E0-000F8513
Town Official Defends Police Commissioner Who Called Obama The N-Word
http://thkpr.gs/1nWq1LS
On March 6, Jane O’Toole was in a Wolfeboro, N.H., restaurant when she heard a town police commissioner call President Obama “the ‘N’ word.” In an email response to O’Toole’s complaint to town officials, the commissioner, Robert Copeland, admitted to having made the comment, writing, “I believe I did use the ‘N’ word in reference to the current occupant of the Whitehouse. For this, I do not apologize — he meets and exceeds my criteria for such,” according to a report from the Associated Press and the New York Times.
Copeland, 82, is one of three elected police commissioners in Wolfeboro, an overwhelmingly white town with 6,300 residents, about 20 of whom are black.
Commission Chairman Joseph Balboni Jr. told the Concord Monitor that O’Toole, whom he referred to as “this woman,” is “blowing it out of proportion,” and that he doesn’t plan to ask Copeland to resign. “He’s (Copeland) worked with a lot of blacks in his life,” Balboni said.
The town manager said he finds the comments “reprehensible” but doesn’t have the power to remove Copeland from office.
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Short: Copeland works with blacks, and therefore this gives him a license to call them and POTUS nigger too.
Exactly!
Stupid remark by Balboni.
I commend O’Toole’s courage to bring this before that town….Mrs. O’Toole was NOT “blowing it out of proportion”!
Rev Al is getting ready to do a segment on Copeland POLITICS NATION! MSNBC
I will be watching it. Thanks for the heads up, Ametia.
We’re going to post the video when it’s available too. I like the “Justice Files” segment
Great. Wonderful to have Sharpton’s video segment on Copeland posted here. Thanks, Ametia!
Ain’t nobody playing with these racist mofos.
NOT.PLAYING.AT.ALL.
Wolfeboro citizens to racist bigots:
LOL Bernie’s the MAN.
MEMO to Robert Copeland:
bwa ha ha ha ha Hilarious! KMSL every time I see it.
LOL!
Begone, Copeland!!!
Folks (***looks at the media***) need to take a tip from the citizens of Wolfeboro! This is how you handle a racist bigot!
Check out Copeland’s body language. He’s a defiant SOB. He needs to BEGONE!
His ass need to be GONE today!
Immediately!!!
STAMPING OUT RACISM one old decrepit white male at a time!
x 2!
It’s huge in a town that is predominately white to take a STAND like this and make the national headlines.
Nope, we’re not gonna chalk this up to a few white liberals speaking out to feel good about themselves.
STAY ON IT UNTIL COPELAND’S GONE.
Time for this bigot to GO! A police commissioner publicly hurling racial slurs around? GTFOOH! This isn’t the 1960’s anymore. He needs to be GONE today!
So very proud of the citizens of Wolfeboro! That’s what’s up. Mad props for standing up to what is RIGHT! I salute you!
I just read your article and watched the videos and do not like what I just learned. Horrible.
All I can say is, good, grief, this guy has to go!
Copeland thought he was in good company! He got tricked. It’s citizens like Wolfeboro who make me feel good about America. *daps to them*
Great article post, Ametia!
Advertising his ignorance!!! All those years filled with hate and haven’t learned a damn thing. Such a waste!
I agreed with you, SG2….The citizens of Wolfeboro stood up and rallied AGAINST racism insisting that this racist resign!!
Hope he resigns or they get him out fast so that they can sing this to him: