Post scribe falls on his ‘spear’ slur
NEW YORK POST political columnist Fred Dicker called an upstate senator a “spear chucker” for the predominantly black New York City Democratic delegation in a controversial on-air comment Thursday.
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“Has anyone heard anything from Neil Breslin in the last few years? He's just like a spear carrier, spear chucker, for these New York City Democrats, but he doesn’t say anything about what’s going on around here,” Dicker said.
Following a commercial break, Dicker clarified his statement after receiving the email from a listener.
“I didn’t think it was a slur,” Dicker said on air. A spokes woman for Rep. Charles Rangel said Dicker should apologize, saying, "Fred Dicker’s use of an unacceptable racial term on his radio program was highly insensitive and offensive.”
The blunder comes after another on-air gaffe in January in which Dicker called the New town school shooting a “little convenient massacre.”