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marmar

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Tue Feb 16, 2021, 08:22 PM Feb 2021

Republican John James says he was called racial slur in Florida [View all]

(Detroit Metro Times) Michigan GOP darling John James, a two-time U.S. Senate candidate, said he was called a racial slur while on vacation in Florida.

In a video posted on Twitter on Monday, James said a man in “a big pickup truck rolls by and screams out the window, ‘Die, [N-word].’”

“You know what I did? I kept walking,” James, now sporting a goatee, said. “There’s nothing I can do about that jackass over there.”

He added, “My mom and dad taught me there’s always going to be hateful people in the world. You can never control what they think or what they say. But you can control what you think and what you say.” .............(more)

https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2021/02/16/republican-john-james-says-he-was-called-racial-slur-in-florida?




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