Sketchy details

Interesting story circulating right now. A Louisiana State Representative made a racially insensitive comment to a black woman this past Thursday evening during a phone conversation. Representative Carla Blanchard Dartez was calling Hazel Boykin, mother of a local NAACP president, to thank her for driving voters to the polls. Read story here

This is a strange one. Who randomly refers to someone that they barely know as "Buckwheat" during the end of a phone conversation? I'm guessing that the conversation was a cordial one based on the reason that the phone call took place at all. Was this simply a Freudian slip? It would be nice if more info becomes available about this.

Newsbusters.org reported this story as well this afternoon. At publication, the WDSU story they linked to did NOT mention Mrs. Dartez's party affiliation. It looks like WDSU first posted the story at 12:48pm, at which time the party affiliation was conveniently omitted. However, the story was republished at 4:21pm, and you will notice that there is mention of the fact that Dartez's husband is a member of the Democratic Party's State Central Committee. I guess one could infer from this that Carla Dartez is also a Democrat, but it definitely reeks of round-about reporting. Let me go now and figure out how to deal with the shock of this. </sarcasm>