The media would have freaked out if a conservative would have said this (rightfully so). The Al Sharpton’s of the world drum up racism when it doesn’t exist, and when it actually does, they remain silent, because this person is a Democrat.
From Downtrend:
Another Democratic lawmaker is under fire for racist remarks.
Ellen Birnbaum, a legislator from Nassau County, New York, is resisting calls to resign from an outraged public after she allegedly said. “This is a bad neighborhood because African-Americans live there. Very few people would want to go there.” The comment was apparently in reference to the area surrounding a community center in New Cassel.
She has apologized and said her comments were “insensitive,” but refused to resign and said she wants to rebuild the trust of the community. “I will every day to build bridges with the African-American community,” she said.
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“You cannot say these things about a particular community and expect that an apology will simply wash it away,” said Abrahams, who last week stripped Birnbaum of committee assignments and removed her from the Democrats’ caucus.
At the rally, former Nassau Legis. Robert Troiano, a North Hempstead official, read an account of Birnbaum’s remarks, which he said came from a “collective recollection” of people who heard them directly. She was speaking to staff attorneys and was overheard by an aide to Legis. Siela Bynoe (D-Westbury).
“She said, ‘Why would anyone want to go there?’ Then . . . she added, ‘It’s a bad neighborhood,’ and ‘It’s a ghetto’ and . . . ‘It’s full of those black people,’ ” Troiano said.
“She then . . . whispered, ‘Come on, who from the rest of the town is going to go there? After all, mostly black people live there,’ ” Troiano continued. “She later added, ‘All they want to do is play basketball.’”
I look forward to not hearing anything about this on the mainstream media. Can you imagine what would have happened if Mitt Romney or George Bush would have said something like this?
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7 comments:
too bad you can not even speak the truth anymore.
she is probably 100% correct in her description of the neighborhood.
just like doverdale.
so what... in order to be politically correct we now have to live in denial.
the first step to making a change is admitting the truth.
In America you can't speak the truth unless it's politically correct!
"the first step to making a change is admitting the truth.
Absolutely! Change will only come when people stop lying. That's why the black neighborhoods have only gotten and continue to get worse. Honesty isn't allowed.
She was 'overheard' by an aide. Again, I don't give a damn what she said in a PRIVATE conversation. It is nobody's business. I don't even care that she is a hypocritical democrat. Folks have a right to expect private conversations will remain private.
In better days, before the whole world went crazy, they had a saying - 'if you overhear something that you don't like, it is your own fault for listening to someone else's business'. I guess that sentiment went out the window.
God forbid!! I actually support a Democrat! (although I'll never admit it publicly.) There is NOTHING racist about the truth.
but the nba players and that simian rat Sharpton can use those terms all day and nobody says a word!
D D Da Hood Whaever
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