SOUTH OF THE TRINITY: NO ANTI-SEMITISM HERE by Rufus Shaw
by DallasBlog.com
Tue, Dec 20, 2005, 03:38 AM
Rufus ShawHad a city council person uttered to a Black city council person something to the effect that African-Americans were running city hall, Black folks would have considered the statement a compliment. Had the same utterance been directed at a white city council member, white folks probably would have felt the statement was nothing less then a fact. But when Black city council woman Maxine Thornton-Reese allegedly told city council man Mitchell Rasansky that Jews are running city hall, Mr. Rasansky reacted in horror. And now charges of anti-Semitism have entered the public debate with Blacks and Jews, historic allies, facing off over the issue.