Election 'Slur' Stir [Another Reason Why Jews Should Not Be Democrats]

New York Post ^ | July 10, 2006 | Andrea Peyser

[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.

[justiceseeker93]

One important omission in the article: All the candidates are Democrats opposing each other in a Democratic primary in a predominantly Democratic district.

[Robert A Cook PE]

And I was just wondering if these racists were democrats ...

/sarchasm

[Red Badger]

Since when does a Congressional Seat "belong" to anybody?................If anything, it belongs to the voters........

[Argus]

For the record, blacks shouldn't be Democrats either.

[kjo]

Can anybody give us a clue as to why so many American Jews continue to vote for Democrats in such large numbers?

Why?

[tflabo]

Democrats are just plain nasty... through and through.

[wolfcreek]

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. Perhaps this is some new ploy the Dims will use in the fall elections.

[Clemenza]

Ping!

[John Jorsett]

"Greedy," sneered the Rev. Al Sharpton about Yassky, playing on that old Jewish slur.

I wonder how Sharpton would like being referred to as "uppity"?

[jwalburg]

As TEvya says: TRADITION!

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

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.

[Lewite]

Being Hebrew and from Alabama, I can say that most democrts here are racists, and proud of it. They have never made it secret.

[ozzymandus]

If jews and blacks ever realize that they are nothing but willing tools of the RATS, it will be all over for the RATS.

[ncountylee]

Major Owens leaves a tough legacy to follow.

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

[CobaltBlue]

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.

[MplsSteve]

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".

[kabar]

The same thing happened to Stephen Solarz. He was a nine term incumbent, but when the ethinic composition of his district changed, he was defeated in the primaries. That's the way it works in Dem politics. It is the reason why we have a Black Caucus and the districts are gerrymandered to get results based on race.

Racial Gerrymandering

[AliVeritas]

ping

[Red Badger]

Blind obedience to past allegiances.............

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

You are from Alabama. That state sort of has a track record for racism (though there are probably plenty of people who are not strongly racist living there--probably most Alabamans). Almost everybody is racist, to some degree.