Black Intellectual Challenges Cesar de Leon!

Michael Harriot, Publisher of  The Root

Grapevine blogger Michael Harriot shared some keen observations about the nature and scope of City Commissioner Cesar de Leon's racist diatribe captured on audio and released in social media last week.


Harriot wrote:

"A Texas politician has apologized after social

media users shared audio clips of him using the n-word in a racist rant. But his half-assed mea culpa was not to the people about whom he said the words. He also didn’t say he was sorry for using the words. He apologized for people finding out about it.

The Brownsville Herald reports that recordings

of Brownsville, Texas, City Commissioner Cesar De Leon went viral this week when people began sharing on Facebook the audio of him referring to two black assistant prosecutors as “fucking niggers.” De Leon also talked mad shit about other city commissioners in an expletive-laced tirade usually reserved for old white men with pointed hoods in their closets.

Public Hanging of Black Men in U.S.

After explaining that De Leon did apologize for the "profane" language, making clear the recording was of a "private conversation," Mr. Harriot continues:

Wait ... what? He’s apologizing for the profanity and not for calling two black men

Former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke

“niggers”? He’s apologizing for a private conversation that went public, but not for how the most egregious slur slid off his tongue like he was channeling David Duke’s dead body? (Yes, David Duke is technically dead. His corpse is just occupied by a slightly less evil demon animating itself off hate and white power.)