A white Maryland lawmaker was censured by the state's House of Delegates on Thursday for making a racial slur about a legislative district in a majority-black county, but she said she would not resign despite calls for her to do so.
"With this vote, we are saying as a body that racial slurs and racially charged language cannot and will not be tolerated by this House," said Del. Kathleen Dumais, a Democrat who is the House majority leader.
Maryland political leaders from both parties and civil rights groups have called for her resignation. After the censure vote, however, Lisanti said she will not resign. She rose in the House chamber to speak, but she was not acknowledged and spoke to reporters outside of the chamber. Even after apologizing earlier this week, Lisanti expressed some doubt Thursday about whether she used the word, though she said she was taking responsibility for saying it.
Nearly 30 per cent of the state's population is African-American, and 57 members of the 188-member General Assembly are black.
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