What he said was he was just repeating what the mayor had said and had got away (the mayor is black)
so he repeated it as he knew it would get the attention
"[The mayor] doesn't need to use that term in front of everybody and I thought the city ought to know the terminology the mayor uses and I didn't want him to get away with it," Bryant said.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n...rd/8040148002/
The Mayor denies this