The leader of a Florida gay-rights group has started a petition knocking Lt. Gov. Jennifer Carroll’s denial of an improper relationship with a female staffer.
“Usually black women that look like me don’t engage in relationships like that,” Carroll told WJXT.
But Nadine Smith, executive director of Equality Florida, has started an online petition saying the remarks were insensitive.
“As a black lesbian from Florida, I personally felt the sting of Florida Lt. Governor Jennifer Carroll’s words,” Smith said. “Instead of simply denying the claims, she stereotyped black lesbians in order to deflect her own charges.”
Carroll has repeatedly denied the claims of an indicted former employee who said she saw Carroll in a “compromising position” with the travel aide.
