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.
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I respect the Jewish conservatives, who bring a lot of intellectual fire to our side. But then I think of Hollywood and the types who make Reform Jews seem practically hasidic.
I have nothing but contempt for Jews who put their heads in the sand and ignore the danger of leftists who are in bed with the islamists. As for Hollywood types--they identify as liberals, not as Jews. If and when they do identify as Jews, it's only to make some ridiculous liberal point, not because they feel any kinship to the original recipients of God's word. : )
I must admit that I am baffled by those who claim to be Jews on racial rather than religious grounds.
Naturally, the ADL didn't publicize the results of its poll very well and the MSM more or less neglected them.
Scuse me, please re-read my post--I did not "exaggerate greatly" the percentage of blacks with negative views of Jews. That's because I was not the one who set the number at 88%! I said I read it somewhere, and I don't remember where which is why I could not provide a link! Certainly the poll numbers may have been exaggerated or skewed. But not by me.
Yes, blacks cannot be free under Democratic control. The Democratic model simply tries to make more and more people the wards of the state.
Where have the LEADERS of the African-American community gone.
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