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4/20/2018

Democratic Lawmaker Humiliates Himself With Anti-Semitic Comments And Subsequent P.R. Rehab Effort At Holocaust Museum

Filed under: General — Dana @ 1:06 pm



[guest post by Dana]

Last month, Washington D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8) claimed that Jews control the weather:

“Man, it just started snowing out of nowhere this morning, man. Y’all better pay attention to this climate control, man, this climate manipulation,” he says. “And D.C. keep talking about, ‘We a resilient city.’ And that’s a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man. Be careful.”

Oof!

Stunningly, when confronted about his anti-Semitic comments, White texted to the Washington Post that “he was surprise[d] that his remarks might be construed as anti-Semitic”. When pressed to explain further, he texted, “The video says what it says.”

Of course after the report about was published and he was roundly and righteously criticized, he sang a different tune:

“I work hard everyday to combat racism and prejudices of all kinds. I want to apologize to the Jewish Community and anyone I have offended,” he said. “The Jewish community have been allies with me in my journey to help people. I did not intend to be anti-Semitic, and I see I should not have said that after learning from my colleagues.”

Riiight….

Anyway, in an effort to rehab his image, White paid a visit to the Holocaust Museum. And unbelievably, things got worse for the elected official:

The photo, taken in 1935, depicts a woman in a dark dress shuffling down a street in Norden, Germany. A large sign hangs from her neck: “I am a German girl and allowed myself to be defiled by a Jew.” She is surrounded by Nazi stormtroopers.

D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8) studied the image. “Are they protecting her?”

Lynn Williams, an expert on educational programs at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and White’s tour guide for the day, stared at the photo.
“No,” she said. “They’re marching her through.”

“Marching through is protecting,” White said.

“I think they’re humiliating her,” Williams replied.

OH FFS!!

The level of ignorance is stunning. White only lasted through half the tour before disappearing. Rabbi Batya Glazer of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington who was working to rehab White’s image, texted the Councilman to find out his whereabouts. White claimed that he had to leave to attend an event elsewhere.

White’s staff continued with the tour and stopped before an exhibit on the Warsaw Ghetto. When the guide explained about how the Jews were walled in, a staff member asked if it was like a “gated community. Rabbi Glazer answered (surely in complete and utter shock):


“Yeah, I wouldn’t call it a gated community,” she said. “More like a prison.”

These shocking displays of ignorance come as a recent report reveals that a disturbing number of people are clueless about the Holocaust, or simply don’t believe it happened:

A study conducted by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany reported this week that 41 percent of Americans and 66 percent of millennials say they don’t know about the Auschwitz death camp where more than a million Jews and others, including Poles, Roma people and gays were executed. Forty-one percent of millennials believe 2 million or fewer Jews were killed in the Holocaust. It was 6 million. And 22 percent of millennials say they haven’t even heard of the Holocaust.

Further:

The survey shows that 70 percent of Americans believe people care less about the Holocaust than they used to. A majority, 58 percent, said they believe something like the Holocaust could happen again.

Almost half (45 percent) of Americans were unable to name a single concentration camp, and the number was even worse for millennials (49 percent).

The report also points out the impending danger: If there is such a level of ignorance while survivors of the camps are still alive and able to share their stories, how much more when they are gone?

Holocaust survivor Walter Ziffer spoke at UNC Asheville last week. He addressed these concerns:

“All of us have a tendency to forget the past. Even the Holocaust, history’s greatest of all crimes in which millions of innocent people perished, is receding into the past and forgotten. I will not and cannot forget that 6 million of my fellow religionists, the Jewish people, were murdered by Nazi Germans. Fourteen of my uncles, aunts and cousins were among the murdered,” Ziffer said. “I consider remembering these shameful deeds and passing on the history of this tragedy is my duty, hurtful to me as this may be. This duty empowers and enables me to write a memoir at age 89 both for my children, children’s children and beyond but also for folks who want to grow in knowledge and spirit and be defenders of freedom and goodness in our world.”

(Cross-posted at The Jury Talks Back.)

–Dana

36 Responses to “Democratic Lawmaker Humiliates Himself With Anti-Semitic Comments And Subsequent P.R. Rehab Effort At Holocaust Museum”

  1. Are the Rothschilds Jewish? Who knew!

    gp (0c542c)

  2. Unbelievable.

    Dana (023079)

  3. The level of ignorance is stunning.

    And we wonder why these Dem cities are Sh**holes.

    Selective ignorance is a feature, not a bug, of our progressive schools. Bet they know that Washington and Jefferson owned slaves though.

    Patricia (3363ec)

  4. here’s a story about when Melania went to the same museum (First Lady Melania Trump)

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  5. Holocaust-forgetting is not good. Most people don’t know about the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Soviet purges and starvation, the Khmer Rouge, Rwanda, etc either. That is not good either.

    As Patricia says, our schools have failed us completely. Yet ask educators, and they’ve never been prouder of their work. Criticize them to their faces, all you’ll get is patronizing veneer over sheer resentment. They are as stupid as their modern curriculum is, and embarrassingly overcompensated.

    The state of USA education is a national tragedy, a dire emergency with no fix in sight.

    gp (0c542c)

  6. This is the sort of guy that DC residents elect to public office.

    Yeah, why not give the District a voting Congressional representative and two Senators? The Founders made a big mistake in not declaring that inhabitants of the capitol city would be counted as residents of Maryland or Virginia, not as their own separate district.

    JVW (42615e)

  7. The state of USA education is a national tragedy, a dire emergency with no fix in sight.

    The problem is that once you start saying that school kids should learn about the Holocaust, communist gulags, and this or that progom, the cultural left will immediately counter that students should learn about the Trail of Tears, anti-immigrant laws, Japanese-American internment, Jim Crow, etc. This is why history classes in education have devolved to grievance studies, instead of teaching students about the wondrous and beneficial rise of Western Culture, flaws and all.

    JVW (42615e)

  8. I’ve been keeping a lot of food outside a window. I just don’t like one refrigerator. That’s why it is cold. Nothing to do with creating natural disasters.

    Sammy Finkelman (02a146)

  9. Natalie Portman’s ignorance is even greater than home slice here i think

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  10. “White only lasted through half the tour before disappearing. Rabbi Batya Glazer of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington who was working to rehab White’s image“ (emphasis mine)

    Maybe that’s part of the problem.

    random viking (6a54c2)

  11. Makes me think that DC v. Heller may have been correct on the meaning of the Second Amendment and wrong on whether there were compelling reasons for DC residents not to have guns. To paraphrase Buck v. Bell, “Isn’t the fact that they’re imbeciles enough”?

    nk (dbc370)

  12. The comment by “boston blackie” has been deleted and he has been banned.

    Dana (023079)

  13. The problem is that once you start saying that school kids should learn about the Holocaust, communist gulags, and this or that progom, the cultural left will immediately counter that students should learn about the Trail of Tears, anti-immigrant laws, Japanese-American internment, Jim Crow, etc

    JVW, I know you don’t think kids shouldn’t learn about all of these events in our history but that it’s *how* they are presented that is the problem. With that in mind, given union control of education and monetary rewards, like Race to the Top being offered to districts (and all that is attached to such programs), I’m not sure what the answer is. Perhaps the educational pendulum will swing back toward center eventually. After all, education is politics, and we’ve seen that pendulum swing wildly this last election.

    Dana (023079)

  14. The survey shows that 70 percent of Americans believe people care less about the Holocaust than they used to. A majority, 58 percent, said they believe something like the Holocaust could happen again. Almost half (45 percent) of Americans were unable to name a single concentration camp, and the number was even worse for millennials (49 percent).

    The report also points out the impending danger: If there is such a level of ignorance while survivors of the camps are still alive and able to share their stories, how much more when they are gone?

    History is taught less and less in schools these days. Kids see nothing practical about it to apply to their skill set in the modern world. Today is you-know-who’s birthday, too– something the students at Columbine learned the hard way. It’s a date around our world to always be vigilant; as those who choose to ‘celebrate’ wickedness and deny reality usually surface to goosestep by torchlight.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  15. 12.The comment by “boston blackie” has been deleted and he has been banned.


    I didn’t get to see it but I figure if you guys banned him it wasn’t worth seeing anyway. I completely forgot that today is Hitler’s birthday and I’m usually good about historic dates. Though Hitler is horrific not historic so…….

    Rev.Hoagie (1b0402)

  16. I thought it was National Marijuana Day a/k/a Stoner Day. As a matter of fact, it is.

    More significantly, yesterday was the anniversary of both the Waco massacre and the Oklahoma City bombing.

    nk (dbc370)

  17. Unfortunately I have found more and more leftists to be like Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8), ignorant, uneducated, bigoted, racist and hostile especially to Jews. I don’t understand why so many on the left are anti-Semitic but the are. Perhaps that’s because so many of us Christians are dedicated to the preservation of Israel they figure if we’re for it they must be against it.

    I do speak for myself when I say there is only one other country today I would march my ass of to war to defend and that is Israel.

    Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his! Numbers 23:10

    http://americandigest.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/adustofjacob.jpeg

    Rev.Hoagie (1b0402)

  18. @16. More significantly, yesterday was the anniversary of both the Waco massacre and the Oklahoma City bombing.

    Always somebody carrying a torch in that parade someplace.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  19. #FreeNarciso

    Rocco (1bdaa3)

  20. If the Jews control the weather why do they all move from NYC to Boca?

    Pinandpuller (be5553)

  21. and they never drive they fly and send everything with the movers

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  22. yeah

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  23. then they b!tch cause their sh!t’s not there when they arrive

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  24. “The comment by “boston blackie” has been deleted and he has been banned.”
    It was a true statement IIRC.

    gp (0c542c)

  25. They tried to make me go to rehab
    I said, no, no, no
    Yes, I been black
    But when I come back, you’ll know, know, know
    I ain’t got the time
    And if my daddy thinks I’m fine
    He’s tried to make me go to rehab
    I won’t go, go, go
    I’d rather be at home with a Ray
    I ain’t got seventy days
    ‘Cause there’s nothing, there’s nothing you can teach me
    That I can’t learn from Mr. Hathaway
    I didn’t get a lot in class
    But I know we don’t come in a shot glass
    They tried to make me go to rehab
    I said, “no, no, no”
    Yes, I been black
    But when I come back, you’ll know, know, know
    I ain’t got the time
    And if my daddy thinks I’m fine
    He’s tried to make me go to rehab
    I won’t go, go, go
    The man said, “why do you think you here?
    I said, I got no idea.
    I’m gonna, I’m gonna lose my baby
    So I always keep a bottle near
    He said, I just think you’re depressed
    This, me, yeah, baby, and the rest

    Amy Winehouse

    Pinandpuller (be5553)

  26. gabriella

    happyfeet (28a91b)

  27. @25. “She’s dead, Jim.” – Dr. Leonard McCoy [DeForest Kelley] nearly every ‘Star Trek’ NBC TV 1966-1969

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  28. When the guide explained about how the Jews were walled in, a staff member asked if it was like a “gated community.”

    Sweet Zombie Jesus, this idiot must have Jewish writers on staff or something. What’s the saying, a good parody is so close you can’t tell the difference from the real thing.

    Made this exact joke to a Jewish friend years ago and laughs were had by at least two horrible people.

    JP (699888)

  29. More like an HOA. Too soon?

    Pinandpuller (be5553)

  30. The survey shows that 70 percent of Americans believe people care less about the Holocaust than they used to.

    OTOH, why should they. The Holocaust was ignited and fueled by Nazi Germany; the Holocaust Museum really belongs in Nuremberg or Berlin, not on the Washington Mall.

    DCSCA (797bc0)

  31. OTOH, why should they.


    Is this an for-real question or are you trying to be funny? Perhaps you really believe there is no reason for Americans to remember what evil is caused by fascist socialism? BTW, they can put the museum wherever they have the money to put it. Or don’t they too have property rights like the Nazi’s would deny them?

    Rev.Hoagie (1b0402)

  32. 26, she should do a show out on Foster by the Swedish hospital and that North Park college, that’s probably also were the few Argentines live out here anyway.

    urbanleftbehind (0ea5ff)

  33. Only one thing to do. Make Trayon the face of the Dems.

    Boo Mertz (5a4596)

  34. The only execption I take to this, is that the Shoah was not “history’s greatest crime.”

    It’s up there, of course, and it was horrific in it’s mechanical application. But Stalin’s Terror and the intentional starvation of millions of Ukrainians was worse. Mao’s initial revolutionary justice, his Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution may each have killed more than 6 million.

    This isn’t even counting the fact that Hitler killed as many non-Jews in the camps as he did Jews.

    Going back further there is Genghis Khan and Timur. Pol Pot was no slouch either.

    Yes, the Holocaust was terrible and lies within living memory, but it was not the greatest crime in history — man is capable of more evil than that.

    Kevin M (752a26)


  35. Only one thing to do. Make Trayon the face of the Dems.

    Boo Mertz (5a4596) — 4/21/2018 @ 1:14 pm

    If Obama had a full brother he would look (and sound) like Trayon.

    Pinandpuller (69da0c)


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