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Published: 03/25/11

Illinois Sheriff Admits Ethnic, Gender Slur on Facebook

By  David Lohr - AOL News
Illinois Sheriff Admits Ethnic, Gender Slur on Facebook

A west-central Illinois county sheriff regrets he ever signed up for Facebook today, as a derogatory post he admits making is beginning to circulate around the Internet. "I am extremely sorry," Schuyler County Sheriff Don Schieferdecker told AOL News this afternoon. "I have spent over 30 years of my life here giving public service, and I have never intentionally done anything to hurt anyone for any reason. ... All I can do is say I am sorry. ... I am extremely sorry [and] I beg people's forgiveness." Schuyler Co. Sheriff's Dept. Schuyler County Sheriff Don Schieferdecker ...

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Published: 03/25/11

Signs Using Racial Slur for Obama Reported at Kentucky Campus

By  Dana Chivvis - AOL News
Signs Using Racial Slur for Obama Reported at Kentucky Campus

University of Kentucky police are investigating two incidents in which signs referring to President Obama with a racial epithet were posted on and near the campus. On Thursday morning, UK Law School student Ches Clark found a sign on a bus shelter that said "How Do You Spell N----r? OBAMA," the Lexington Herald-Leader reports. Clark took the sign to his law school class on racism and criminal law and posted it on his Facebook page. He said the note was rudimentary, with letters that appeared to have been cut from a menu, glued onto another piece of paper and photocopied. On March 15, a UK ...

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Published: 04/14/08

Congressman Refers to Obama as 'Boy'

By  Denise Williams - Politics Daily
Congressman Refers to Obama as 'Boy'

(h/t TPM) Update Below: Kentucky politics blog, Pol Watchers, reports that US Congressman Geoff Davis (R-KY) made the following observation about Barack Obama at Northern Kentucky's 4th Congressional District Lincoln Day Dinner Saturday night: U.S. Rep. Geoff Davis, a Hebron Republican, compared Obama and his message for change similar to a "snake oil salesman." He said in his remarks at the GOP dinner that he also recently participated in a "highly classified, national security simulation" with Obama. "I'm going to tell you something: That boy's finger does not need to be on the ...

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Published: 01/31/07

Nick Saban Slurring and it Ain't From The Bottle

By  Brian Grummell - AOL News
Nick Saban Slurring and it Ain't From The Bottle

As reported pretty much everywhere today, audio was released of Alabama coach Nick Saban using a derogatory slur.During a meeting with Florida reporters, Saban relayed a story about a phone call from a friend on the LSU board of trustees who had an unusual encounter with a cajun-accented LSU fan (full audio here)."He was walking down the street yesterday before the Sugar Bowl," Saban said on the taped comments. "He calls me. There was a guy working in the ditch, one of those coonass guys that talk funny."I can't talk like them, but he can. Most people in Louisiana can."Continuing to tell the ...

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