A Texas GOP leader has come under fire and pressure to resign over a months-old text she sent in which she used n-word to refer to a fellow black party member.
Chairwoman of the Galveston County Republican Party Yolanda Waters, who is black, sent a damning text to another party leader in which she referred to J. T. Edwards, a member of the State Republican Executive Committee, as a 'typical n**' on March 27.
Screenshots of that exchange surfaced online over the weekend and sparked outrage for her offensive language.
Water, who identifies as a Latina and African-American woman, claims that it was a typo because she was typing too fast.
'I usually type very fast, and in this case, I moved too fast to see that the word was there,' she said in a statement to the New York Daily News. 'I made the typo because I did not proofread my text. I do not believe it is appropriate language to use in speaking about a fellow African-American.'