Republican state Rep. Travis Grantham used the term while condemning a Democratic lawmaker who said the GOP’s voter suppression bill targets Black people.
A Republican state lawmaker in Arizona on Tuesday used the racist slur “colored people” to describe Black voters in the state.
State Rep. Travis Grantham used the language — which was prevalent in the racist, segregationist pre-Civil Rights South and has been considered inappropriate for decades — as he condemned a speech from state Rep. Reginald Bolding, a Black lawmaker who said a voter suppression bill that was being debated targets Black voters, among others.
“I feel personally that motives were arraigned of members, including myself, with regards to colored people, Black people, whatever people this individual wants to single out in their ability to vote, and I think it’s incorrect,” Grantham said, referring to Bolding, according to a video captured by Daily Kos Elections. Continue reading.