In a repeated and blatant series of racist microaggressions, a white city council official in Greensboro, North Carolina has been fired for refusing to address the woman he was speaking with by her earned academic title of Doctor during a televised community meeting.
Yaron Steinbuch of the New York Post has reported that “Tony Collins, a member of the Greensboro Zoning Commission, was removed by the City Council this week after a tense exchange involving Carrie Rosario, an associate professor at UNC-Greensboro.”
The local newspaper, the Charlotte Observer, summarized the pair’s heated and contentious conversation, which occurred near the end of a four-hour Zoning Commission meeting when Rosario attempted to address her concerns over a development project taking place near her home.
