UNLESS IT'S AGAINST WHITEY!
Posted on 06/12/2006 1:26:43 PM PDT by againstallhope
NY Times, June 12, 2006 by Jonathan P. Hicks
"A group of black and Hispanic elected officials from Brooklyn are scheduled to meet this morning to devise strategies to keep a white candidate from winning a Congressional seat of historical significance in black politics.
It is not the first such meeting of these officials, nor is it likely to be the last. That there are talks so steeped in ethnicity indicates that race is not just one of the issues in determining who will succeed Representative Major R. Owens. It seems to be the dominant one.
Mr. Owens, a veteran of more than two decades in Congress who turns 70 this month, is not running for re-election. The black and Hispanic officials gathering today are discussing how to prevent David Yassky, a white city councilman from Brooklyn Heights, from winning a seat that once belonged to Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress."
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Ain't tolerance grand?
Could you imagine the outrage if whites got together to explicitly plan how to keep a black from winning a seat?
"Blacks that hate whites can never be racist. "
Of course they are, this seat is just one more entitlement program to the Dems....
Why are the Hispanics in on this conspiracy?
Isn't this a felony? A conspiracy to deprive someone of their civil rights? Where's the Justice Department? /crickets
Celebrate Diversity...
Not only is this racism but also bigotry. I'll bet money that Yassky is Jewish and there is only one thing these blacks hate more than white people is a Jewish white person. Welcome to the world of Democrat politics!!
So, it doesn't matter what the voters of that district want, right? It's up to the politicians to decide who is the right candidate?
From the left? Naaawww
Could it be... satan?
You are right, he is. He was also some kind of aide to Schumer. The dims are shameless hypocrites.
It's amazing how objective the reporter is...
Major Owens...
"There were 200 million people thrown overboard just coming across. So great was the number of people that were thrown overboard, that it altered the ecology of the ocean. Sharks to this day trace after ships seeking the flesh that was thrown overboard during the 200 years of the slave trade."
You are right about the double standard. If such a meeting took place among Republicans it would be the lead story on every nightly newscast and portrayed quite negatively - and rightfully so. From what portion of the article you have posted here, it is almost presented as a positive event. It's an outrage.
Okay, the blacks don't want a Jewish congressman. Anti-semitism is everywhere in the Democratic party, yet most Jews still vote Democrat.
CAN ANYBODY TELL ME WHY?
It's a mystery to me too. Most evangelical christians are Republicans and pro-Israel.
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