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A Carpentersville village trustee was charged with disorderly conduct after asking two black children who were on her property to “quit playing in the tree like monkeys.”
Trustee Linda Ramirez Sliwinski has been fined $75 for the comment. And the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama forced her to resign as a campaign delegate.
But wait…
Carpentersville Mayor Bill Sarto says he talked with Ramirez Sliwinski today and she told him she has no intention of resigning as an Obama delegate.
Ramirez-Sliwinski, who says she also calls her own grandchildren monkeys, insists that she didn’t mean anything racially derogatory and that she was merely concerned that the children might fall from the tree and get hurt.
But the neighbor disagrees. According to Police Commander Michael Kilbourne, “She felt it was racist because of the fact the children were African-American.”
What’s astonishing about this story isn’t that the neighbor is considered a more credible judge of what Ms. Ramirez-Sliwinski meant than Ms. Ramirez-Sliwinski; it isn’t even the hypocrisy of the Obama campaign calling Ms. Ramirez-Sliwinski’s use of the term monkeys “divisive and unacceptable”.
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