N-Bombing In Greenwood

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A Greenwood councilman has apologized for using a racial slur in an e-mail referring to the council’s black president David Jordan.“I am sorry that I used the language that I used,” John Lee said Friday in a prepared statement. “I did not intend for it to be harmful to David nor to our community. I will continue to work with David, and I hope that David will continue to work with me to make our community a better place to live.”

Lee, who is white, sent the e-mail last week to 15 individuals, all white. It was written the morning after a city council meeting and 13 days after the fatal shooting of Greenwood High School senior Erica Duncan, who was black.

“Had a long talk after the city council meeting ... with David Jordan,” Lee wrote in the e-mail. “The ole n..... can’t understand why the black’s (sic) continue to shoot one another. I told him he needed to spend less time with the old people at the Voter’s League and more time with the young people about getting an education”

Lee said while the two councilmen were talking, a young black man came up and asked Jordan for work. When Jordan, who also serves as a state senator, quizzed the unnamed man about what he did for a living, according to Lee, he responded that he was a rapper.

“I told David he missed his chance,” Lee wrote in the e-mail. “He should have told that black boy he should be in school getting his education in order to have a future.”

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