Racists Tweets Follow Bruins’ Loss on Goal by Black Player
May 2014
Boston has long had a reputation for racial intolerance, and it reared its head again following the 4-3 overtime loss by its hockey team, the Bruins, to the Montreal Canadiens. Black Montreal player P.K. Subban scored the winning goal and Boston fans blew up Twitter with tweets such as these:
– That stupid n***** doesn’t belong in hockey #whitesonly
– F*** YOU N***** SUBBAN YOU BELONG IN A F****** HOLE NOT AN ICE RINK
– SUBBAN IS A F****** PORCH M*****
NH Police Commissioner Calls Obama ‘that f*****g n****r’
May 2014
Robert Copeland, 82, an elected member of the three-person police commission that oversees the police department in the New Hampshire town of Wolfeboro, where former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney owns a home, loudly called President Barack Obama “that f*****g n****r” in a crowded restaurant and then refused to apologize for it. In a letter he wrote, Copeland acknowledged that he used the word. “I believe I did use the ‘N’ word in reference to the current occupant of the Whitehouse (sic),” Copeland wrote. “For this, I do not apologize — he meets and exceeds my criteria for such.”
