When it’s a black community doing it to a white lesbian, of course…

ST. PETERSBURG - A town hall meeting with City Council candidate Darden Rice turned ugly after some audience members criticized her for being white and a lesbian.

The meeting, held at the Enoch Davis Center Tuesday night, attracted about 40 people. Among them was Theresa “Momma Tee” Lassiter, an outspoken city activist.

During the question-and-answer session, Lassiter asked Rice if she was gay. When Rice replied that she was, Lassiter stormed out of the building.

“I answered her question, but she didn’t want to listen to what I had to say,” Rice, 35, an organizer for the Sierra Club who is running for the District 6 council seat, said Wednesday.

Lassiter said she didn’t approve of Rice’s answer. “God’s not down with that,” she said.

Had this been Billy Graham’s group, or someone similar, we all know the outrage this would’ve caused… It got kookier there, though. Here’s more from the “imagine if it was a white christian who said it” department:

Also in the audience at the town hall meeting were several members of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement.

Group members believe a white person is unfit to represent District 6, which includes parts of downtown and Midtown and has a predominantly black population.

Karl Nurse, a Rice supporter who was in the audience, said several Uhurus shouted at Rice because of her race.

One person called her family “murderers.”

“This is just straight up racism, and I don’t think we should roll over for it,” Nurse said. “It’s evil. It’s a very offensive argument.”

Dwight “Chimurenga” Waller, the Uhurus’ president who is also running for the District 6 seat, was not at the meeting and said he couldn’t comment on what happened. But he did say he believes Rice should not represent District 6 because of her race.

“She’s part of the attempt to take over the African community,” Waller said. “It’s the same oppressive politic.”

Take over the African community?

*Yawn*

Someone get that moron a compass; he’s on the wrong continent.

Source: St. Petersburg Times