Monday night’s Bloomington City Council meeting is where a member of the Illinois Black Chamber of Commerce addressed Mayor Tari Renner during public comment concerning racial comments he allegedly made in May about Supreme Court Clarence Thomas not “behaving like who is African-American.”
WEEK-TV reports Cornell Darden Jr. is a board member for the Illinois Black Chamber of Commerce and while he said he did not come to shame the mayor, he wanted him to understand that an elected official should not show such a bias.
Renner said his comments were misconstrued. He said he was only refereeing to the voting record of Thomas and he feels he is being singled out by a “very extreme right wing blogger.”
You may judge for yourself by viewing the posted video.
