Pasadena mayor: 'Speak up, boy' not racist

[...] in a statement to the media, the 78-year-old mayor took issue with critics who called the way he addressed Councilman Cody Ray Wheeler "racist."Isbell was rushing to take a vote on a contract for delinquent tax collection when Wheeler interjected: "I haven't had an opportunity to speak yet."Council members representing the city's predominantly Hispanic north side have complained that their neighborhoods have been largely neglected by local government, and a federal judge recently found tha