See you later, Peckerwood!

Memo to Caucasian politicians: It's not nice to call African-Americans "Buckwheat." I don't care how many Eddie Murphy tapes you've watched.

Yes, someone did this. And it tells you something -- OK . . . it tells you a lot, actually -- that this stupefyingly stupid someone is a state legislator You Know Where.

Then again, repeat after me: "Dat's Loosiana for you!"

Can't folks in my home state please, please, PLEASE get a clue? At long last, is there no limit to how much you want to be embarrassed by those you put in high office?

ANYWAY, if you would like to read the sorry details, WAFB television in Baton Rouge has 'em:

Louisiana State Representative Carla Dartez is considering resigning after allegedly referring to the mother of an NAACP president as "Buckwheat," a Houma newspaper reported Friday.

Jerome Boykin, President of Morgan City's NAACP, told WAFB 9NEWS that Dartez was speaking by phone with his mother to thank his mother for her help with Dartez's re-election bid. That help included volunteering to drive voters to the polls during the October 20th primary. Boykin says Dartez ended that conversation by telling his mother, "Talk to you later, Buckwheat." Boykin says he considers that to be a racial slur.

Boykin, who supported Dartez's re-election bid in October, says he has now informed Dartez he is no longer supporting her. "I will do everything in my power to see that she's not re-elected," Boykin told WAFB 9NEWS. Dartez received 44% of the vote in October, and faces a November 17th runoff against Republican Joe Harrison, who received 36% of the primary vote.

Boykin says, after his mother told him about the conversation, he called Dartez and she acknowledged she had used the "Buckwheat" reference. He says Dartez started to cry and apologized. "She said she'd gone to Walmart a couple of days ago and bought an Eddie Murphy tape and that's what they said on the tape." He says Dartez indicated she did not realize that the term could be interpreted as a racial slur.

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In September, Dartez was cited for improper lane usage after hitting a pedestrian with her car. That same month, her husband was arrested [by] federal agents on charges that he employed and harbored illegal aliens. Lenny Dartez insisted he was innocent of those charges.

OH, WELL . . . I guess you could take the glass-half-full approach and be thankful Rep. Dartez didn't call Boykin's mama "Buckwheat" just before running her over while smuggling a carful of illegal aliens to her husband's workplace.

That would have been bad.