How does Trayon White still have a job?

[Anonymous]

His behavior at the Holocaust Museum on Wednesday shows that he's either incredibly dumb, incredibly anti-Semitic, or both. He clearly isn't fit to work at McDonald's, much less on the city council of a major U.S. city:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/local/dc-politics/dc-lawmaker-who-said-jews-control-the-weather-visits-holocaust-museum/2018/04/19/0b69ddde-4329-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html?utm_term=.866247e32ab9&__twitter_impression=true

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:His behavior at the Holocaust Museum on Wednesday shows that he's either incredibly dumb, incredibly anti-Semitic, or both. He clearly isn't fit to work at McDonald's, much less on the city council of a major U.S. city:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/local/dc-politics/dc-lawmaker-who-said-jews-control-the-weather-visits-holocaust-museum/2018/04/19/0b69ddde-4329-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html?utm_term=.866247e32ab9&__twitter_impression=true

Disgraceful. His colleagues should demand his resignation. Black bigotry is unacceptable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:His behavior at the Holocaust Museum on Wednesday shows that he's either incredibly dumb, incredibly anti-Semitic, or both. He clearly isn't fit to work at McDonald's, much less on the city council of a major U.S. city:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/local/dc-politics/dc-lawmaker-who-said-jews-control-the-weather-visits-holocaust-museum/2018/04/19/0b69ddde-4329-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html?utm_term=.866247e32ab9&__twitter_impression=true

Horrible. However the truth is he will continue to be lionized by his own community and probably even the Jewish community. They are giving him way too much credit for "rehabilitating" himself with these half hearted gestures.

[Anonymous]

Black person in Ward 4 here. Guy’s a bumbling idiot, and his behavior is embarrassing.

[Anonymous]

What a dumb piece of s***

Ward 8 gonna ward 8

[Anonymous]

Ward 8 needs to vote this guy out if it wants to stop being the butt of jokes

[Anonymous]

Ask Brianne Nadeau. She also needs to go.

[Anonymous]

Horrible. Not only is he totally unaware of history and treatment of the Jews in Nazi Germany, but it appears he doesn’t care to learn about it.
How did this guy get elected?

[Anonymous]

Non-DCer here. Seriously, how is this guy still in office?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What a dumb piece of s***

Ward 8 gonna ward 8

Yep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Non-DCer here. Seriously, how is this guy still in office?

Because he's an elected official, and can't simply be fired. He either has to resign, which he's not going to do, or be removed from office, which isn't easily accomplished.

Did I really need to explain that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Non-DCer here. Seriously, how is this guy still in office?

Because he's an elected official, and can't simply be fired. He either has to resign, which he's not going to do, or be removed from office, which isn't easily accomplished.

Did I really need to explain that?

Also, this is DC, where constituents are all too pleased to elect corrupt, law-flouting politicians to DC Council and keep some of them in office even when there is blatant evidence of wrongdoing on their or their associates' behalf (see: Marion Barry, Kwame Brown, Harry Thomas Jr., Vince Gray...).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Non-DCer here. Seriously, how is this guy still in office?

Oh, you're new here! We have a long history of being ok with local politicians being completely ape shit criminals, but as long as they're from the neighborhood, it's fine, and in fact a point of pride. We love Marion Berry but kicked out Adrian Fenty, our first white mayor.

In broad strokes, chocolate city is run by locals (read: black). The transient rich people (read: white) end up moving back to Ohio or to Bethesda, Silver Spring, etc. So politicans like Trayon don't get pushed out.

This is changing. I think my kids' generation will have a more diverse city council, since there are many types of kids growing up in DC now-- white, black, rich, poor. In my generation anyone who had any means (no matter your race) fled bc of the crack epedemic and riots. Now there are lots of reasons to stay in DC so people with choice stay here. But these changes are fraught around race, gentrification, education, all those fun things with no good answers. My family came over in the late 1800s and every generation since has lived in the DC border except my generation, the siblings and cousins born between 1975-1990 or so, due to what DC was going through. However, now we're back on this side of Western Ave w our kids and thriving. My parents neighborhood was Petworth.

I do not seen Trayon losing his spot on the DC Council. Maybe if kojo nnamdi starts calling for it-- he seems to be a good source of shaming that folks will listen to.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Non-DCer here. Seriously, how is this guy still in office?

Because he's an elected official, and can't simply be fired. He either has to resign, which he's not going to do, or be removed from office, which isn't easily accomplished.

Did I really need to explain that?

Also, this is DC, where constituents are all too pleased to elect corrupt, law-flouting politicians to DC Council and keep some of them in office even when there is blatant evidence of wrongdoing on their or their associates' behalf (see: Marion Barry, Kwame Brown, Harry Thomas Jr., Vince Gray...).

Yeah, only DC has ever had a corrupt official. From your list, Gray was never charged with anything and of those charged, only Barry was ever re-elected to anything. There are corrupt public officials everywhere and there are stupid public officials everywhere. Suggesting DC is somehow special in this regard ignores reality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Non-DCer here. Seriously, how is this guy still in office?

Oh, you're new here! We have a long history of being ok with local politicians being completely ape shit criminals, but as long as they're from the neighborhood, it's fine, and in fact a point of pride. We love Marion Berry but kicked out Adrian Fenty, our first white mayor.

In broad strokes, chocolate city is run by locals (read: black). The transient rich people (read: white) end up moving back to Ohio or to Bethesda, Silver Spring, etc. So politicans like Trayon don't get pushed out.

This is changing. I think my kids' generation will have a more diverse city council, since there are many types of kids growing up in DC now-- white, black, rich, poor. In my generation anyone who had any means (no matter your race) fled bc of the crack epedemic and riots. Now there are lots of reasons to stay in DC so people with choice stay here. But these changes are fraught around race, gentrification, education, all those fun things with no good answers. My family came over in the late 1800s and every generation since has lived in the DC border except my generation, the siblings and cousins born between 1975-1990 or so, due to what DC was going through. However, now we're back on this side of Western Ave w our kids and thriving. My parents neighborhood was Petworth.

I do not seen Trayon losing his spot on the DC Council. Maybe if kojo nnamdi starts calling for it-- he seems to be a good source of shaming that folks will listen to.

PP. Thanks for going there. Hard to talk about DC-specific politics without bringing up the racial component.

And no, saying that doesn't make us racist. It is pointing out a fact that warrants further discussion.