The tip-off was a front-page article in today’s New York Times: "As Obama Heads to Florida, Many of Its Jews Have Doubts." The content was dumbass Roving Reporter drivel: turns out that highly influential demographic, handful-of-elderly-Jews-in-Florida-who-once-lived-in-the-inner-city, don’t like di Shvartzes. Nu? But then I noticed an article, safely tucked on page B2, and then I noticed a name that was conspicuously missing from both the front-page article and the back-page anecdote. The name is Yankel Rosenbaum.
Yankel Rosenbaum was a young Jew who was killed in a riot in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in 1991. The riot followed an incident in which the driver for a Hassidic rabbi ran over a killed a young black child, Gavin Cato. Judging from today’s article the next riot is about to begin, and for much the same reasons: Hassidic Jew assaults black kid, who unfortunately happens to be the son of a police officer; alleged perpetrator is then made unavailable to the Brooklyn District Attorney, a religious white man by the name of Charles Hynes who has a reputation for not particularly caring about the black community.
Oh – and another same old reason: if it weren’t for stoking divisions between whites and people of color in New York City most of New York’s elected officials, Jewish, Catholic or black, would be out of a job. Black honchos like Rep. Charlie Rangel would lose their role of "compromisers;" Jews like Mayor Bloomberg would lose their roles as protectors of big business and real estate; and Catholics like Geraldine Ferraro would lose the lulus by which they bribe their own communities, one of my favorites being the "African Queen," the name given to the subway train that was supposed to carry travelers directly from Manhattan to JFK Airport but whose main purpose was to provide transportation from Italian neighborhoods into Manhattan, bypassing the ghetto. If it weren’t for those divisions, past and future, Jews in Florida might well support Obama – who knows?
Now I know it’s not nice to compare a nice Jewish boy like Yankel to an impotent rapist’s dildo; but, whoever said Hillary and her gang played nice? And whoever said politicians played nice when their jobs were at stake? The only question in my mind is, who will finally decide this is a boat that’s not worth rocking? Who, of Hillary and Rangel and all the others whose living hangs, one way or another, on this fragile peace in Brooklyn, will lose their job if this thing backfires?
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