A member of the Fairfax County School Board apologized Friday for using a derogatory term for people with intellectual disabilities during a meeting the previous evening.
Karen Keys-Gamarra, a child advocate and lawyer who has been an at-large member of the school board since 2017, made the comment in an aside to another board member, but it was was picked up on a microphone. “We can’t be this,” she started, and used the disparaging word.“I deeply apologize for my words because that’s not what is in my heart,” Keys-Gamarra said in her statement.
A community member had been reading a statement against anti-racist efforts in the school system on behalf of someone who could not attend because of a family emergency. Fairfax board rules bar participants from speaking on behalf of others. Keys-Gamarra and three others voted to suspend that rule, but the motion failed and the woman could not complete her statement.
Stop the language police! “Retarded” isn’t a slur unless the speaker intends to denigrate. Otherwise it is a scientific term (meaning “delayed”) used in many papers, as well as a colloquial term for “silly” or “stupid”. Almost every word can be used as a slur if intended as such.
The LA city Latinx racist has something to say about black people, this Fairfax ableist thinks she’s much better then us, what’s up with all these elite democrats
WaPo: someone said sorry 'The news'
Nice redemption arc for the racist and an attack on the governor you hacks.
BUT tHE pArTieS swItcHeD SiDes!
Any chance you’ll mention this guy?
No.... They are just sorry it got out!
Wow… What a shocking piece of news… WP, keep us informed about such important events. That’s the reason we all have to subscribe. Pulitzer is waiting for you lol
Was it the R word? Robocop…🧐
who cares
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