Tuesday

Good morning, GN!

It’s December already??? Fffffffuuuuuuuu… 😉

This makes me much angrier that it probably should: Clinton Appoints Ex-Congressman Who Blamed Defeat on Jews to ‘Leadership Team’.

Shortly after Hilliard’s defeat, the former congressman gave an interview to the Black Commentator in which he said “Jewish interests” bought the election for Davis.

“The only thing I know for sure, that I saw in black and white, is $1,098,000 that [Davis] reported,” said Hilliard in the July 16, 2002 interview. “You can’t take money from corporations, so that came from Jews and Republicans. There’s no question where that money came from.”

Hilliard said his opponent also received millions of dollars in free media coverage.

“Remember, the Jewish media. They started putting word out, they wanted everybody to know, because … obviously they felt that the money they had, that they put in, that they were going to beat me,” he said.

According to Hilliard, billions of dollars were being taken from poor communities and sent to Israel. He said Davis “made a pact with the Israelis” and “was used.”

“[Davis] doesn’t know that his victory sent a message to other Blacks of my era that they better be careful what they say or how they deal with the Israeli or Jewish question,” said Hilliard.

Hilliard also said that one mainstream Jewish organization wrote to him after the election and told him he “ought to stop whimpering because, after all, they didn’t replace me with a white.”

“There is a group out there that wants to dominate us,” he added. “They want us to do what they want us to do … and to Hell with our agenda if there is a conflict.”

I cannot quite put my finger on why those tropes sound so familiar…