{"id":40943,"date":"2015-04-22T19:51:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T19:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40943"},"modified":"2015-04-22T19:51:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T19:51:23","slug":"wrightsville-beach-alderman-pressured-to-resign-after-insult-against-bartender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40943","title":{"rendered":"Wrightsville Beach alderman pressured to resign after insult against bartender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starnewsonline.com\/article\/20150417\/ARTICLES\/150419765\/1177\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Wrightsville Beach alderman pressured to resign after insult against bartender<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starnewsonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">StarNews<\/a><br \/>\nWilmington, North Carolina<br \/>\n2015-04-17<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/julian_march\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Julian March<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wrightsville_Beach,_North_Carolina\" target=\"_blank\">WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townofwrightsvillebeach.com\/board\/meettheboard\/tabid\/83\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Alderman Darryl Mills<\/a> is facing pressure to resign after he used derogatory language to a bartender last month.<\/p>\n<p>Mills made the comment to Mia Banks while she was working at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingneptunewb.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">King Neptune Restaurant<\/a> on North Lumina Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, Mills confirmed he called Banks a \u201cmixed breed\u201d and used an expletive. He said he and Banks have had a bantering and teasing relationship for years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat night, as soon as it happened, I saw that it bothered her, hurt her, and I apologized immediately and left,\u201d Mills said. He later apologized a second time in an email.<\/p>\n<p>He has no plans to resign. \u201cI think this is a personal matter,\u201d he said. \u201cIt has nothing to do with Wrightsville Beach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Banks agreed she had a bantering relationship with Mills, but said that would be true with all of her customers, especially regulars.<\/p>\n<p>She said she had not discussed her race with Mills before his comment. Her mother is Polish and Italian and her father is African-American.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was humiliated,\u201d Banks said. \u201cI was degraded.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starnewsonline.com\/article\/20150417\/ARTICLES\/150419765\/1177\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrightsville Beach alderman pressured to resign after insult against bartender StarNews Wilmington, North Carolina 2015-04-17 Julian March WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH | Alderman Darryl Mills is facing pressure to resign after he used derogatory language to a bartender last month. Mills made the comment to Mia Banks while she was working at King Neptune Restaurant on North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,26,20],"tags":[19959,19958,879,19960,19957],"class_list":["post-40943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-darryl-mills","tag-mia-banks","tag-north-carolina","tag-starnews","tag-wrightsville-beach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}