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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMayor of East Haven, CT responds to how to help race problems in town with "I might have tacos"
Video here. It's unreal.
http://www.courant.com/videogallery/67610630/News/east-haven-mayor:-%27i-might-have-tacos%27-for-dinner
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Fuzz
(8,827 posts)statements, especially during the same interview where you just said the damn thing. It's right on tape.
mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)I really do.
Fuzz
(8,827 posts)demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)ignorant ass
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)...and then says the press is going to "twist and turn it". It doesn't need to be twisted to sound asinine.
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)simple as that.
So we have a racist cess pool in our midst! It's a problem...they obviously want to discourage any blacks and Latinos out of East Haven. They have pretty much succeeded, but I ask, who will take their place? Probably blacks and Latinos!
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)Their racist police dept is in deep shit with the DOJ.
I hope that miserable excuse of a city gets its ass nailed to the wall by the feds. I have a couple of good friends there and they are wonderful people. but the town generally has sucked as long as I have lived in CT.
Fuzz
(8,827 posts)They also have the most el camino's per square mile I think.
Can you send me a clam pie from Modern please?
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)I have loved Modern on State Street since I worked there at Women's Health Services many years ago!
The sliced tomato pizza in summer is wonderful, too. It is amazing how a simple pizza like that can be so terrific, but it is...
Fuzz
(8,827 posts)every once in a while.
You know that old old church across the street from Modern? My dad's church rented that place for several years before buying their own church, he was the preacher. I snuck out of church and went to Modern more times than I can count, usually with a deacon's daughter.
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)and they only spoke Polish and finally they had to stop catering to the diminishing Polish community on State Street. Interesting...
But Modern is still here.
Hey, did you go to Yale?
Fuzz
(8,827 posts)when he rented it. I don't know how old you are but there was a church in new haven called gospel tabertacle, great old building that is now condos. My father started there in the 60's. John Ashcroft attended that church when he attended Yale. Got some slides of him at my parents piano in their apartment. He would occasionally come over for sunday dinner. My dad went to a bible school that his father ran in MO.
And no, didn't go to Yale. Had to work myself through college and could only afford Southern Ct. Finished at Rutgers though.
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)interesting history. I didn't know a lot of it. I got a Master's at Albertus Magnus in 2003.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)By far the majority of Latinos in CT are Puerto Rican. He'd have to eat pasteles, plus a heaping serving of crow, to gain any street cred with them.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Ashville, NC > East Haven, CT
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)Bad, very bad.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)The bigotry is very subtle, but is it real.
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)If I had my druthers I would live in Litchfield over Greenwich, any day!
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)I was suprised at the subtle bigotry from many students and some teachers.
Clearly, they bought into Nixon's race baiting and Reagan's mythological welfare queen.
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)I do like living up here in Litchfield County although Terryville is not nearly as nice as Litchfield. Cheshire was an experience of kids I went to highschool with having BMWs and their parents having extreme wealth. I am glad I left. I agree with you on East Haven. It has the reputation of being racist. Connecticut has always had some very racist areas like any other state. But it also has some very good liberal areas. The East Haven mayor sounds like a racist dimwit. A Republican racist dimwit.
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)In some areas in that county there is no mail delivery. Folks go pick up their mail at their little post offices! And these are VERY rich people. Not at all showy about their money.
BTW some of these towns are rated among the most liberal in the state (the town of Salisbury in the Litchfield hills is often cited). They have a lively cultural experience. One town has poetry readings on their Green every spring. People come out and read Wallace Stevens and Emily Dickinson and their own poetry aloud. These towns are not racist. Indeed, they are probably further to the left than most of the state, excepting some of New Haven...
Snake Alchemist
(3,318 posts)Looks like the quietness has ceased.
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)own racist thing, publicly and not so publicly for a very long time.
this local priest has shaken things up and gotten the folks riled, so they are not too happy. Plus, they have elected a repub mayor (after a woman dem) so don't expect great things from him!
Fuzz
(8,827 posts)What's going on there?