In March 2015, a man who used to work at Show-Me Rent to Own in Sikeston, Missouri, filed a lawsuit alleging that his supervisor regularly used racial slurs against him, telling him, among other things, to "quit acting like a n*gger"— and that a map on the wall of the store circled a majority black neighborhood with the words "do not rent" written next to it.
The owner of the business is state Senator Gary Romine (R-Farmington), and in response to the suit, his lawyers acknowledged that, yes, a map in the back of the store had those very words written upon it. Everything else, he pretty much denied.
In any other state, that kind of admission might be a scandal — or at least grounds for future questioning.…