California Secretary of Education Richard Riordan told a little girl that her name, Isis, meant “stupid dirty girl.” Idiot. He should be fired or quit.
The fascinating thing is that at least one Democrat in Calfornia was preparing a protest against Riordan — until he found out that the little girl in question was white rather than black,
Democratic state Assemblyman Mervyn Dymally, who had scheduled a protest by civil rights organizations, canceled the demonstration after an apparent mix-up over the girl’s racial background.
Dymally was quoted in the San Jose Mercury News Thursday saying the child was “a little African-American girl. Would he (Riordan) have done that to a white girl?”
The girl is white, with blonde hair.
Dymally did not return telephone calls. His office issued a statement Wednesday calling Riordan’s remarks to the girl “outrageous and irresponsible,” then issued another statement Thursday saying, “To err is human; to forgive is divine.”
“Race is not a factor in this issue,” Dymally said in Thursday’s statement, adding that Riordan had apologized a second time. “It is time for us to move on.”
No wonder California’s so screwed up with people like these representing them.
Source:
California education chief calls preschooler ‘stupid dirty girl’. Associated Press, July 9, 2004.