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Everett Metropolis Councilor apologized publicly in a letter to the editor printed by the Everett Advocate final week.
Residents are denouncing Everett Metropolis Councilor Anthony DiPierro and calling for him to resign after he acknowledged circulating a racist meme on-line.
The meme he shared was a display seize from the satirical animated sitcom “South Park,” displaying a Wheel of Fortune contestant requested to finish a phrase to unravel the query, “Individuals who Annoy You.” Within the present, the shocked contestant reluctantly utters the N-word earlier than the right reply is revealed as “naggers.” The message he traded with others within the metropolis grew to become public final week in a report by the Everett Chief-Herald.
“It breaks my coronary heart to listen to from a sitting councilor speaking a few derogatory phrase about Black folks,” Guerline Alcy Jabouin, who’s Black and ran unsuccessfully for the council in November, mentioned at a council assembly Monday evening. “It hurts extra to know that town’s not doing something about this.” She known as for DiPierro to step down, eliciting sustained applause from dozens of residents who attended the assembly within the Everett Excessive College library.