Meet Ohio State Rep. Robert F. Hagan. Democrat. You can tell that he’s a Democrat, because he’s perfectly comfortable with using racially-charged language on Facebook:
A Broadview Heights woman is accusing state Rep. Robert F. Hagan of using a term that some believe has a racist connotation on a social networking site.
Hagan, D-60th, of Youngstown, used the term “buckwheat” in a Facebook posting Saturday.
(Via Instapundit) You can see a screenshot of the specific exchange here, and the entire exchange here. Hagan’s defense is that a). He’s always been in favor of civil rights; and b). That the ‘buckwheat’ was directed towards the (presumably-white) woman with the Hello Kitty icon, and not towards the African-American man who had made the comment immediately preceding Hagan’s. The first objection can be easily-enough dismissed with; minority conservatives have long been traditionally exempted by the Rabid Left from any consideration or courtesy. Simply put: said Rabid Left doesn’t consider non-white male conservatives to be really people, so there’s no need to treat them as people.
