
N.C. County Commissioner Wants ‘Nonwhite Male’ As New County Manager
Submitted by Mastodon on Sat, 2013-06-29 14:59
Article here. Excerpt:
'A North Carolina County Commissioner is sticking by her statement that the next person who is hired for a vacant county manager position should be a “nonwhite male.”
Kim Ratliff, a county commissioner in Mecklenburg County, N.C., made her comments following the departure of former county manager Harry Jones.
“Some residents may have taken it the wrong way,” Ratliff said. “But I said what I said.”
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“I wasn’t saying for white men not to apply,” Ratliff said. “What I was saying was we had a white male county manager. We had a black male. It’s a given those two genders and races will apply. I’m saying to the ladies of every race — take a chance at it.”'
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This is more abt gender, it seems
The headline refers to white males-- but really, she's saying the next comm'r should be a female. Just because. Arbitrarily, a simple prejudicial judgment based on nothing but... what? Gender bigotry? Looks like it to me.