Posted on 07/10/2006 12:01:25 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
July 10, 2006 - Do you want a white Jew to represent you in Congress?
The answer to the Jewish question is a resounding "no" on Nostrand Avenue in Flatbush - epicenter of a vicious political contest, even by Brooklyn standards.
"Some ethnic groups are trying to control the area," warned Jude Saint-Phard, a 67 year-old construction worker who is black.
"It's a master plan," he added. "It's the same plan that took Downtown Brooklyn from the blacks, that took Park Slope! Once they have the Congressional seat, they are pushing the blacks out of the area."
I ask which groups aim to push blacks from anywhere. Hasidic Jews?
Saint-Phard corrected me.
"Hasidic, non-Hasidic - he is just a Jew!" he said.
This conversation, I'm sorry to say, took place not in 1906, or 1966, but in 2006. As much as we smiled and joked, it turns out - in this man's eyes - we are enemies.
He is far from alone in feeling that way.
The racial and economic fault lines in this city are being walloped by a race for New York's 11th Congressional District, which extends from largely white Brooklyn Heights nearly to the eastern end of the borough.
Trying to win the seat held by retiring Rep. Mjor Owens are three black candidates: state Sen. Carl Andrews, Councilwoman Yvette Clark and Chris Owens, the incumbent's son.
And one white Jew.
The district was created in the 60s to achieve a black voice in Congress. So now, some black pols think it's OK to trash the white candidate, City Councilman David Yassky, for trying to snatch a seat they think belongs to person with black skin.
"Greedy," sneered the Rev. Al Sharpton about Yassky, playing on that old Jewish slur.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
And I was just wondering if these racists were democrats ...
/sarchasm
Since when does a Congressional Seat "belong" to anybody?................If anything, it belongs to the voters........
For the record, blacks shouldn't be Democrats either.
Can anybody give us a clue as to why so many American Jews continue to vote for Democrats in such large numbers?
Why?
Democrats are just plain nasty... through and through.
Ping!
I wonder how Sharpton would like being referred to as "uppity"?
As TEvya says: TRADITION!
Rather than being antiSemitic per se (they could be, but aren't necessarily), these racists could simply be antinonAfrican descended people, be they of Semitic, European, Asian, or Latin American descent.
Being Hebrew and from Alabama, I can say that most democrts here are racists, and proud of it. They have never made it secret.
If jews and blacks ever realize that they are nothing but willing tools of the RATS, it will be all over for the RATS.
He once declared in a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives that a hundred million blacks perished on the journey from Africa to America, and that so many of the dead were thrown overboard that, to this day, sharks still follow the routes taken by the slave ships.
Yup...a tough act to follow. LOL
Racism exists everywhere, including some people in the Republican party. It's not the norm anywhere, or at least not morally acceptable or socially acceptable.
But if you want to argue that Democrats are all racists and anti-Semites but no Republicans are racists or anti-Semites -- it's a free country.
But if I were you, I wouldn't be surprised if that argument doesn't get very far.
You know, this isn't the first time the Dems have said something like this.
In 1978, Dave Durenberger was elected to the US Senate seat that was vacant due to the death of Hubert Humphrey. For years after, Dems referred to this as "Hubert Humphrey's Senate seat".
Since the 2002 election, Norm Coleman has held the seat that opened up due to Paul Wellstone's death. Dems refer to this seat as "Paul's seat" or "Wellstone's Senate seat".
ping
Blind obedience to past allegiances.............
"Some ethnic groups are trying to control the area," warned Jude Saint-Phard, a 67 year-old construction worker who is black.
"It's a master plan," he added. "It's the same plan that took Downtown Brooklyn from the blacks, that took Park Slope! Once they have the Congressional seat, they are pushing the blacks out of the area."
Hey, Jude (to coin a phrase), you're missing a few details. Check this website for the whole plan:
http://www.internationaljewishconspiracy.com/index.html
If it's not Jews, it's the Asians!
If it's not Asians, then it the Mexicans!
If it's not Mexicans, it's all Republicans!
If it's not all Republicans, it's Bush's fault any way!
It's less tradition than it is an addiction. Just like a chemical substance abuse problem, Jews' voting for Democrats is self-destructive, yet on some level so psychologically satisfying that in many instances it's hard to quit.
Hence the strongly racist; for clarification to any offended Alabamans, or others.
You mean to tell me that they haven't yet referred to it as "the Jewish seat." (LOL)
"The Austin-American Statesman is running a series about Blacks that were run out of different counties across the Mason-Dixon line from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s by Whites."
I have personally been physically chased out of two black neighborhoods and a black-owned convienience store. Wonder if they'll do a story on that?
LOL!
Not Yet!
This situation highlights another political imponderable. Blacks by and large despise Jews, and yet liberal American Jews remain their most ardent supporters. They will suffer every insult, slur and desecration heaped upon them by Jesse, Al, Louis et al, and come back begging for more. It seems as if only the Israeli variety has the ability to recognize their enemies.
For the record, people shouldn't be Democrats.
Right Al....nice job on the Tawanna Brawley thing, you race-baiting media-whore.
not hard to understand...many Jews (just like many non-Jews) are social liberals, particularly regarding welfare programs.
(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)
They exist? In the black nabes in my area, all the convenience stores are owned Bangladeshis or Arabs.
I'm not arguing that "Democrats are all racists and antisemites." Nor am I arguing that racism and antisemitism are non-existent within the Republican Party. But I think it's fair to say that (1) on balance, the large majority of clearly racist and antisemitic public remarks made by public officials in, say, the last two decades, have been uttered or written by Democrats and (2) polling shows that Republicans as a group favor a US foreign policy protecting Israel's right to exist and flourish in significantly larger percentages than Democrats. (And yes, anti-Israeli views on the Middle East are a good proxy for antisemitic views in general.)
First, the amount of racism among members of the republican party is not relevant. We do not have to be lilly white in order to assess democratic racism. Racism in the democratic party is not excused by the existence of any racism anywhere else.
Also, we can accuse the democratic *party* of being racist, and institutionalizing racist practices without accusing *all* democrat *voters* of each being racist.
I would argue that is the case. It is unwritten (and written) policy to use race to further party goals. It is party policy to forment racial disharmoney. It is party policy to treat black Americans as second rate citizens while accusing republicans of conspiracies and plots to sicken and kill black Americans.
Not really, but we have been stuck with Sander Levin for years. It is more a dislike of him for being a liberal Rat, more than any thing else. The fact that he is Jewish really is a non-issue.
Not to mention the USSC seats that are reserved for various factions so as not to 'upset the balance' of the court, as if a snapshot of today is the natural order of things and to be preserved no matter what, in the manner of climate 'control.'
Funny thing, but preservation of the status quo used to be a mark of conservatism.
I suspect it is because many Jews are more liberals than Jewish.
...stating the obvious.
From personal (family) experience, many mistakenly believe that this is the same Democratic Party as the Democratic Party of FDR, and it will take new generations (for whom FDR is merely another thief who reaches out of his grave to steal from every paycheck) to come along before the majority can understand that today's Democrats stand for almost everything that Jews abhor...
"They exist?"
Memphis, TN. Complete with black seperatist literature on the counter for you to take with you.
Exhibit A might be the rigid racial, ethnic, and gender quota systems that Democrats have maintained for selecting delegates to their national convention ever since the McGovern convention in 1972. Since there is hardly a more important function for a national party than choosing (and supporting) a presidential candidate by these delegates, this is very strong evidence of the Democrats' internal thinking on racial, ethnic, and gender matters. And their general support for racial quotas throughout American society would be Exhibit B.
You can't know if most people of African descent despise Jews. in fact, there are many Jews of African descent.
You said a mouthful. Its also true.
That may be obvious to some, but I think the writer was remiss in not reporting that fact in the story. In the absence of any other evidence, I can't accuse her of covering up that discomforting (for her) fact, but neither can I rule out that possibility.
If this was a republican, the NY SLimes headlines would be screaming this bodes bad for the GOP in Nov
Dennis Prager had some really good articles on townhall.com about why so many Jewish people vote Democrat and/or dislike Israel.
I don't capitalize either party's name because I do not respect them enough to do so. Same with the senate and senators.
The AAS is on a Leftist political rampage. If your a white dude or a Conservative, there's not a chance!
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