GRAHAM, N.C. – An Alamance County commissioner is drawing fire for comments he made during Monday's commissioner meeting.
Commissioner Tim Sutton referred to slaves on his great grandfather's farm as “workers” when the agenda turned to a conversation about confederate monuments.
"Some guys on the farm, now you can call them slaves if you want to but I would just call them workers -- that they raised a good bit of my family out there at Altamahaw-Ossippee -- and that, when the time came, my great grandmother gave them land," said Sutton.
Sutton says the recent controversy over Confederate monuments is an example of political correctness going too far.
Sutton, who admitted he's a chartered member of the Sons of the Confederacy, told the meeting, "I am not going to be a victim of political correctness.''
He told the Burlington Times it is his belief slaves on the family farm were treated fairly and kindly and he was only talking about that one instance.