{"id":1327,"date":"2023-03-17T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2023-03-17T02:02:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T02:02:09","slug":"protasiewiczs-prolific-use-of-the-n-word-and-other-racial-slurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=1327","title":{"rendered":"Protasiewicz\u2019s Prolific Use of the \u201cN\u201d Word and Other Racial Slurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/03\/16\/protasiewiczs-prolific-use-of-the-n-word-and-other-racial-slurs\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=protasiewiczs-prolific-use-of-the-n-word-and-other-racial-slurs\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/03\/16\/protasiewiczs-prolific-use-of-the-n-word-and-other-racial-slurs\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=protasiewiczs-prolific-use-of-the-n-word-and-other-racial-slurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/janet-protasiewicz-used-the-n-word-referring-to-blacks-in-childrens-court-cases-witness-says\/\">I mean\u2026 seriously<\/a>. Isn\u2019t the rest of the media a bit embarrassed yet that Wisconsin Right Now is breaking all of these stories? Don\u2019t they have any professional pride?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Two people who knew Janet Protasiewicz \u2013 her former stepson AND a long-time self-described liberal family friend of her ex-husband \u2013 told Wisconsin Right Now in recorded interviews that they heard Protasiewicz use racial slurs when she was a prosecutor in Children\u2019s Court. Both men, Jonathan Ehr and Michael Madden, told Wisconsin Right Now that they personally heard Protasiewicz use the \u201cN word\u201d to refer to blacks.<\/p>\n<p>Madden, Protasiewicz\u2019s then stepson, said in a videotaped interview that she used the \u201cN word\u201d to refer to blacks\u00a0<strong>who were involved in court cases while she served as a prosecutor in Milwaukee County Children\u2019s Court<\/strong>, including the parents of black children and blacks accused of crimes.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>In a separate audio recorded interview without Michael Madden present, Ehr, a former Milwaukee restaurant\/bar owner and self-described \u201cliberal,\u201d told Wisconsin Right Now that Protasiewicz used the \u201cN word\u2019 in front of him to refer to blacks and also used a racial slur to refer to Hispanics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was the \u201cN word\u201d and then I thought she said, I could have sworn she said, beaner, or something, beaner,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2023\/03\/16\/protasiewiczs-prolific-use-of-the-n-word-and-other-racial-slurs\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=protasiewiczs-prolific-use-of-the-n-word-and-other-racial-slurs I mean\u2026 seriously. Isn\u2019t the rest of the media&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1327\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}