WASHINGTON (AP) — A spiraling controversy over anti-Semitic comments and conspiracy theories has roiled the city government, seemingly getting worse with every public attempt to ease the tensions.
The issue nearly derailed a Washington City Council meeting Tuesday morning and resulted in the resignation of a city official who organized a disastrous “unity rally” that featured a speaker who called all Jews “termites.”
We’re in your lumberz stealing your cellulose.
Then video surfaced from a February meeting of top city officials that showed White floating a similar conspiracy during an innocuous presentation about the University of the District of Columbia. White posed a question centered on the claim that the Rothschilds controlled both the World Bank and the federal government.
The video shows city leaders in the room, including Mayor Muriel Bowser, awkwardly laughing it off and moving on, but the footage further upset Jewish community leaders.
Then a further revelation: White had contributed $500 from a fund meant for his Ward 8 constituents to a Chicago event for Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam.
There probably wouldn’t be an NAACP without all of the early support they got from my peeps 100 years ago.
I read about this stuff and really want to grab some people and shake them like rag dolls while telling them about the years of threats -- including arson and death -- my family got during (mostly) the ’60s for being “nigger lovers”.
I used to lie awake in bed -- especially from ages 7–10 -- terrified that someone would act on those threats.
Nevermind the fact that Dad got involved in civil rights while he was still a “resident alien” and could have been deported. But he was an American in his head and heart before he ever arrived in Chicago and didn’t like that some of his fellow Americans were being discriminated against by their own government. (Since he kind of knew what that was like.)
But -- as Brenda has pointed out -- the shakees would only want to know “what have you done for me lately?”
Much like your lovely wife, I grew up in the military. The USMC was probably the most fully integrated of the services and my dad, even though he grew up in the South, treated everyone equally. Growing up my friends were of all races, colors, and ethnicities. None of us thought a thing about it and couldn’t really understand why some people hated others because of their skin color.
I grew up in a mixed neighborhood, I don’t really think there was a majority in any significant way. My parents never used racial or ethnic slurs, other than “Jap” and that was not used as a slur. There were many films of our national leaders a few years before using the term and my father spent time in occupied Japan and had respect and admiration for the Japanese people and culture, though not the militaristic leadership. My parents had to explain what the civil rights marches were about. I did not really even see them as a black issue because there were so many white people in the marches (I learned later many were Jews) and it was white leaders fighting over segregation and equal rights. The hostility later shown to Jews and to people like Heston who marched when Hollywood was very racist and it could have ended his career were so sad to me. The courage and virtue of the people who ended segregation deserved better, to be honored and commemorated. The antisemitism of Jackson and Sharpton was especially galling.
One of the first books I remember my mother recommending I read was “Black Like Me” from 1961 by John Howard Griffin. It was shocking to me. I could not understand how that could be in modern America. I guess today if he had been a leftist he would be a “black leader” preaching about the terror of growing up black and if a conservative he would be condemned for cultural appropriation.
Happy Fuzzy Puppeh Thursday, Wheelizens!
Looks like the Joooo-hating rot in the D.C. Shitty Council goes beyond Tayvon “Rothschilds Weather Machine” White, Sr.:
https://wtop.com/dc/2018/05/anti-semitic-conspiracy-theories-roil-dc-city-government/
We’re in your lumberz stealing your cellulose.
Moar at the link.
“We’re in your lumberz stealing your cellulose.” Heh. Jooooos-is there nothing they can’t do?
For Sven:
Cool. Down to the last detail including that large ugly growth on the left side of the face.
Sure Happy It’s Thursday, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, Fatwa!
Leftist blacks hating Teh Jooooos? Whooda thunk?
Hai, Paddy!
Can’t fix ignorance, stupidity or hate.
There probably wouldn’t be an NAACP without all of the early support they got from my peeps 100 years ago.
I read about this stuff and really want to grab some people and shake them like rag dolls while telling them about the years of threats -- including arson and death -- my family got during (mostly) the ’60s for being “nigger lovers”.
I used to lie awake in bed -- especially from ages 7–10 -- terrified that someone would act on those threats.
Nevermind the fact that Dad got involved in civil rights while he was still a “resident alien” and could have been deported. But he was an American in his head and heart before he ever arrived in Chicago and didn’t like that some of his fellow Americans were being discriminated against by their own government. (Since he kind of knew what that was like.)
But -- as Brenda has pointed out -- the shakees would only want to know “what have you done for me lately?”
Progressivism is fucking cancer.
Much like your lovely wife, I grew up in the military. The USMC was probably the most fully integrated of the services and my dad, even though he grew up in the South, treated everyone equally. Growing up my friends were of all races, colors, and ethnicities. None of us thought a thing about it and couldn’t really understand why some people hated others because of their skin color.
I grew up in a mixed neighborhood, I don’t really think there was a majority in any significant way. My parents never used racial or ethnic slurs, other than “Jap” and that was not used as a slur. There were many films of our national leaders a few years before using the term and my father spent time in occupied Japan and had respect and admiration for the Japanese people and culture, though not the militaristic leadership. My parents had to explain what the civil rights marches were about. I did not really even see them as a black issue because there were so many white people in the marches (I learned later many were Jews) and it was white leaders fighting over segregation and equal rights. The hostility later shown to Jews and to people like Heston who marched when Hollywood was very racist and it could have ended his career were so sad to me. The courage and virtue of the people who ended segregation deserved better, to be honored and commemorated. The antisemitism of Jackson and Sharpton was especially galling.
One of the first books I remember my mother recommending I read was “Black Like Me” from 1961 by John Howard Griffin. It was shocking to me. I could not understand how that could be in modern America. I guess today if he had been a leftist he would be a “black leader” preaching about the terror of growing up black and if a conservative he would be condemned for cultural appropriation.
How’s the remodel going, Paddy?
It’s progressing. The tile guy just had shoulder surgery, so that’s putting things back by a couple of weeks.