No inoffensive way to say the 'n-word', US senator learnsFrank Artiles US Senator Frank Artiles is facing calls to resign after what he called a 'heated debate' with colleagues where he used several offensive terms. Republican Senator Frank Artiles tried to say he changed the ending of the 'n-word' to 'as' and explained that was the way people speak in Hialeah, the city near Miami where he grew up. Senator Artiles owes the residents of Hialeah an apology for unfairly associating them with this kind of behaviour,'' he said in a written statement. It wasn't the only offensive terms he used during Monday night's conversation - all of which Democratic Senator Perry Thurston spelled out in his complaint. Thurston said Artiles used multiple obscenities to describe Senator Audrey Gibson, including one particularly offensive to women.

Source: Stuff April 20, 2017 09:11 UTC