Yep, that's racism!

Yahoo News wrote:Missouri town responds to officer exodus after election of black female mayor

A small city in Missouri caught national attention when roughly half of its employees resigned following the election of its first African-American female mayor.

Many news outlets and bloggers have speculated that racism and sexism drove the exodus in Parma, a city of about 700 near the Mississippi River; whereas several residents say other factors were at play.

Mayor Tyus Byrd, 40, who beat longtime incumbent Randall Ramsey, has not yet released a formal statement on the controversy, but did address it briefly after being sworn in last week.

“Moving forward, I’ll get with the board. I’ll speak here in a little bit,” she told KFVS-TV, “and we’ll talk and discuss those issues that have taken place today. And we’ll try to get things in order for the city.”

The local CBS affiliate reported that three full-time cops and two part-time cops — five of the city’s six officers — quit without notice. Several other officials, including the city attorney and city clerk, also resigned.

Nelvia Donaldson, an African-American alderman in Parma, thinks bigotry is behind the departures that followed Ramsey’s defeat, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

“I think it’s about being a woman and being black,” she told the paper. “He (Ramsey) thought he had it in the bag.”

Rich Medley, a former assistant police chief, on the other hand, said to the Post-Dispatch that he resigned out of fear that he would not be allowed to do his job properly.

He said the town’s officers had several run-ins with members of Byrd’s family.

“Rather than put my life in danger more than I do now on a daily basis, I decided to walk away,” Medley said.

Ramsey told KFVS-TV that the departures were over “safety concerns,” but none of the resignation letters have been made public.

Parma resident Martha Miller, who campaigned for Byrd, does not think the resignations have to do with race, but she disagrees with how they happened.

“I think it’s pretty dirty they all quit without giving her a chance. But I don’t think they hurt the town any by quitting, because who needs six police for 740 people,” she told KFVS-TV.

“There was absolutely no racism that had anything to do with this,” Barry Aycock, a white former alderman, said to The Associated Press. “We had an election, it’s over, and we’re all supporting the new mayor and moving forward.”

Lisa Kirk, 58, who owns a convenience store in Parma, was surprised that the town even had six people on its police force.

“There was never police around in town,” she told the wire service. “We have no idea where the six officers worked or who they are. If they did work, I don’t know where they were.”

Kirk said her shop has been burglarized nine times over the past decade.

One thing’s for sure: Byrd has attracted a lot of supporters on social media since the story broke.

Fuzzy Zack wrote:And even if we were truly separate, your children will only be truly happy when you make the children of others happy too.

Children will never have peace when their parents only want war. The planet is too small for such division. We all have to share.

Shady wrote:

veya_victaous wrote:Whinnging Bloody Pommie
YES YOU HAVE MADE A MOUNTAIN OUT OF A MOLE HILL.
you think getting called a Name is racist Or someone having a misconception about your country.
THAT IS NOT THE PROBLEM
QUILL IS RIGHT YOU DO NOT HAVE THE SLIGHTEST CLUE WHAT REAL RACISM IS.
It is the Shit Systems Brits have left around the world, the garbage that STILL actively  discriminates BY laws and abilities to get jobs, Not "Some one hurt my feeling by calling me a bad name"..



think your self lucky quill is wrong in that half the American Shit does not concern civilized nations
but your schooling has gone down the toilet in the past 2 decades, we are thrashing you now in Govt' funded eduction (obviously everyone beat USA in govt funded education)

Even in Australia the Racism like the USA is 'not a thing'. we're not going to murder people for their skin colour and Cops Definitely aren't going to do that shit, neither of our nations are great slave keepers. it is very different, UK racism is telling lies about history to make the UK seem more important, valid, not just psycho killer rapist nation that it was. it's not believing that other people deserve to be slaves or dead like some Americans seem to think.

Good  morning Veya.

If I had posted comments like that,you would have removed the post & banned me...Like you did before you racist hypocrite.

veya wrote:LIAR
I have never banned anyone so
LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE
Couldn't Pirate for Shit

veya_victaous wrote:He Insults my honor  
I should challenge him to a cutlass duel on a plank suspended between two ship in a shark feeding frenzy

veya_victaous wrote:LOLZ not quite.
I can handle my own too.

I've been close to a knife in the guts a couple of times.
I have ring imprints on my chin from fighting (the reason i grew a beard)
my shins are a web a scars (kickboxing is my main fighting)
done both ankles, knee and a wrist in fights over the years
Did you think i was joking when I said Blacktown is/was a bad area  
anything but guns and I'll give it a go.

Don't help I like fighting (it's wrong, i know), but a mans never as alive as when his own blood is pissing out of face and his hands a splattered in someone else's.

Nemesis wrote:Yeah right Veya, it shows you have been drinking too much amber necter which may give you bravdo, but will do bugger all to help you in a situation with an individual from one of the best trained armed forces in the world.

You live in cloud cuckoo land

veya_victaous wrote:LOLZ
yep had a solider tell me how fucking tough he was before didge, didn't stop me leaving him is a pile of his vomit (I choked him out, but he gave me the biggest ring imprint almost knocked some of my teeth out)  
I really don't give a shit if he anit got a gun he still got knock me and that is not easy. I don't fight to win just fight to not lose I always expect to bloody at the end.

You are right this is the internet and i don't have to prove myself.
but you proved how soft/pacifist you are if you think claims of military service affect a fighter, if anything you just make me want to fight him more for the experience, As pretty much every other male with fighting blood will too...  fear/risk is adrenaline it is addictive.

nicko wrote:22yrs in military service,  weapons instructor, unarmed combat instructor, drill sergeant among others.

Tommy Monk wrote:Why is blacktown such a bad area...?


Is it maybe because it is full of blacks...!?

nicko wrote:22yrs in military service,  weapons instructor, unarmed combat instructor, drill sergeant among others. I don't like to boast,Veya but you are full of it!!!

Tommy Monk wrote:So who is responsible for the violence/crime in blacktown...!?

veya_victaous wrote:

nicko wrote:22yrs in military service,  weapons instructor, unarmed combat instructor, drill sergeant among others. I don't like to boast,Veya but you are full of it!!!

are you Shady?        
how much cutlass experience do you have?    




and Nemesis, if you aren't Didge then how do you know shady is ex military I have never seen post stuff to suggest that he is  he posts a lot suggesting he is a pirate however
and for either it is the internet so he could well and truly be full of shit... even more so if we is claiming to be special forces more likely to be a real pirate

Nemesis wrote:

veya_victaous wrote:He Insults my honor  
I should challenge him to a cutlass duel on a plank suspended between two ship in a shark feeding frenzy

You do realise Shady is either a Royal Marine or in the SBS?

Which means he would maske mince meat of you in seconds

Nemesis wrote:That is incorrect Irn, as at least 3 i could see standing out in blue have not been answered.
Which if you claim you have looked back and miss questions that naturally stand out, then what is there left to say, but the fact you clearly are telling porkies.

On that I wish you a good evening, but this clearly was just another one of your poor games that fell very flat.


All the best, I rest my case here and will leave it at that

Nemesis wrote:

veya_victaous wrote:
He Insults my honor  
I should challenge him to a cutlass duel on a plank suspended between two ship in a shark feeding frenzy

You do realise Shady is either a Royal Marine or in the SBS?

.....  

Lone Wolf wrote:

Nemesis wrote:

You do realise Shady is either a Royal Marine or in the SBS?

.....  

BULLSHIT to that  !!!

SHADY always comes across as just another regular sailor...
PROBABLY now he's a volunteer in the Coast Guard in his retirement years..