From City Hall News:Hundreds of people gathered in a Southeast Queens high school auditorium Thursday night for a “rally against racist journalism” that they say was behind the collapse of the troubled AEG bid for the Aqueduct racino contract, engulfing Gov. David Paterson, Senate President Pro Tem Malcolm Smith, Rep. Greg Meeks and other Queens politicians.
With former Council Member Archie Spigner and other Queens powerbrokers in the audience, community leaders railed against media—specifically the New York Post, Daily News and New York Times—for its coverage of the Aqueduct deal, which they say led to the denial of thousands of construction jobs and other economic opportunities.
“We were robbed,” thundered the Rev. Charles Norris, to a chorus of “mmm hmms” and “amens.”
“If there are no jobs,” Norris added, “it’s because they have been stolen.”
Other speakers conjured up images of lynch mobs and racism from the early part of the century to emphasize who was behind the failed racino contract.
Donald Vernon, director of the United Black Men of Queens, said the infamous Greenwood race riot of 1921, when over 3,000 black residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma, were murdered by an angry mob, spurred by newspaper stories that promoted lynchings.
The Aqueduct deal is not so different, Vernon said.
“That race riot was caused by the same yellow journalism we witnessed in the New York Post, the Daily News and the New York Times," Vernon said.
He also called stories in those papers “lies, innuendo and rumors,” spurred by racism.
“They are twisting the public view as to who we are,” he said.
But not everyone in the audience was convinced by the fiery rhetoric. After the rally ended, one person quietly grumbled about the lack of any local elected official at the event.
“It’s all insiders,” the person said. “And they’re talking about 1921?”
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These so-called black leaders feel that in their quest to provide more jobs,bid rigging is ok, as long as it provides jobs. Rules are rules, people.
Rev. Norris was the community leader who attacked those who were critical of then-York College President Josephine Davis in the early 1990s. She was eventually forced to resign due to financial improprieties. Norris marched through the school (possibly with a megaphone) "naming names" of those faculty who were disloyal to Davis. He tried to make it like it was the evil White faculty against the good Black president, but Davis also eventually lost the support of the Concerned Black Faculty and Staff group at York. He's still a powerbroker in the neighborhood, and I've seen him at various functions. He probably feels somewhat marginalized because the current president of York is from Jamaica, and the provost is from Guyana -- and we know that Blacks don't consider people from the Caribbean to be real Blacks, or at least treat them differently than their American brethren.
YO dem pepes R not troo 2 the ghetto
dey act lik ORREEoh cookies...not like us reel folkzzzzz
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and we know that Blacks don't consider people from the Caribbean to be real Blacks,
Hundreds of people gathered in a Southeast Queens high school auditorium Thursday night for a “rally against racist journalism”
Must be those same "ray-cist" journalists that wrote all those horrible muckraking stories about Barack Obama. The reporters who read his books, investigated his background thorougly, interviewed his past acquaintances, looked into his associations with sleazy people in Chicago, and ultimately prevented him from becoming President.
Those "racist journalists", right?
“We were robbed,” thundered the Rev. Charles Norris, to a chorus of “mmm hmms” and “amens.”
Remind me again, what is the black-on-black crime rate again?
“If there are no jobs,” Norris added, “it’s because they have been stolen.”
Who stole them, and where did they go?
Other speakers conjured up images of lynch mobs and racism from the early part of the century to emphasize who was behind the failed racino contract.
“When it comes to violence, all the blacks lynched in the entire history of this country, plus all the blacks and whites killed in all the race riots of the 20th century, do not add up to one percent of the people killed in riots between Hindus and Moslems in one year when India became independent in 1947.” – Thomas Sowell
“They are twisting the public view as to who we are,” he said.
Who is this nebulous "they"?
Who could "they" possibly be referring to?
“It’s all insiders,” the person said. “And they’re talking about 1921?”
Thank God! At least one person with a brain!
NYT accused of racism...bhwwaaahaha
Stolen by people who can read, write and speak ENGLISH.....get a clue Norris
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“If there are no jobs,” Norris added, “it’s because they have been stolen.”
If you cant cheat your what to the top... play the race card.
This is what happens when your only "leader" is fake "reverends" Al and Jessie
and we know that Blacks don't consider people from the Caribbean to be real Blacks, or at least treat them differently than their American brethren.
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Thats because most caribbean blacks that i have met are friendly, clean, responsible, and employed hard workers.
Our blacks dont like being shown up by the "new blacks"
And those "new blacks" have also recently arrived from Africa.
Of course they're talking about 1921-- confuse, delay, obfuscate the issue, call everyone racist, then walk away with the money. Reverend Al's career is built on this.
SOS-same old shite. People wonder why racism never dies-this is why. The race baiters never pass an opportunity to inject the race issue into every instance of malfeasance by non whites no matter how little race has to do with the issue. Crooks come in all colors-get over it already and quit defending some with laughable charges of "-isms" or "-phobias". They all should pay the price for their BS no matter who they are.
Of course they're talking about 1921-- confuse, delay, obfuscate the issue, call everyone racist, then walk away with the money. Reverend Al's career is built on this.
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The same with the Democratic Machine that lives in a world of 1859, 1905, 1929, 1963.
Boo Hoo. I'm so tired of hearing these black leaders crying about how the white man has held them down. It's not the media's fault that these politicians are thieves, who just happen to be black. There is good and bad in all races. It just so happens that the majority of New York politicians are criminals and these guys got caught. The media is just reporting the facts.
Where was Rev. Al Sharpie?
Did this known FBI informant who is said to keep a mistress in posh Ditmas Park digs miss an opportunity to hear himself speechify about the white devils forever stomping on the Black man?
C-mon...it's 2010.
Enough excuses for a race not being willing to be proactive enough to raise themselves.
Bill Cosby's got your number!
Racism AGAIN?....and AGAIN??....and AGAIN??? HO HO HO HEE HEE HEE HA HA HA
All you have in NYC is Dems who are really as corrupt as Republicans and have nothing to do with the democrats in other state in any way.
Iowa has gay marriage but NYC dems go against it like republicans.
mmm... black president, black governor, black state senators, black assembly members, black city council members, black borough president, the average black earns more than the average white in Queens -- could Queens be any more racist?
mmm... black president, black governor, black state senators, black assembly members, black city council members, black borough president, the average black earns more than the average white in Queens -- could Queens be any more racist?
Let the race mongers eat the msm and vice versa.
The cry like babies.Sucks when ya can't "get over".
Maspeth Mom says...
This same nonsense is sickening. There been "equal opportunity" in the USA for several generations.
Still they find that welfare/food stamps is a way of life.
There is a black man in the White House now. NO MORE EXCUSES!!! Its time to use these opportunities they wanted - and stop the whining.
Imagine, the people who swung from trees in 1921 are being equated with people who lost out on a piece of pork in 2010.
I think that those who lost a family member to murder should be outraged at this travesty.
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