Via CNN:
An Irish politician with a colorful online presence has apologized for using the N-word in a tweet comparing the plight of slaves in the United States to that of Irish nationalists.
Gerry Adams, president of Irish republican political party Sinn Fein, tweeted Sunday night: “Watching Django Unchained — A Ballymurphy N—-r!”
“Django Unchained” is a 2012 Oscar-winning Quentin Tarantino movie in which Jamie Foxx plays a freed slave trying to rescue his wife from a Mississippi plantation.
Ballymurphy is the area of Belfast, Northern Ireland, in which Adams was born, and where British soldiers killed civilians in a series of shootings in 1971.
His tweet, which featured the uncensored version of the racial epithet, provoked a storm of criticism and was swiftly deleted.