How does Trayon White still have a job?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think White left the tour (and lied to his host that he had a meeting in the ward, when he remained outside the museum!) because he (1) grew bored with the topic and can only focus on matters personally relevant to himself; and/or (2) grew up in a Holocaust-denial culture and couldn’t reconcile what he was seeing with what he actually had grown up believing. To the PPs who wished to cut him some slack because it was all too much to take in - nah, he just doesn’t care.

I don’t know why White left the tour but doing so demonstrated that his intentions were not sincere in the first place. As a result, I disagree with Jeff that White tried to make amends. He tried to LOOK like he was making amends.

[jsteele]

Well, this will certainly add fuel to the fire:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-lawmaker-under-fire-for-anti-semitism-donated-to-event-where-farrakhan-denounced-jews/2018/04/20/32bbcc60-440c-11e8-bba2-0976a82b05a2_story.html

White made a $500 donation from his constituent services account to a Nation of Islam event at which Louis Farrakhan spoke. Of course, Farrakhan took the opportunity to denounce Jews.

In this article, White defends the Nation of Islam:

"The Brothers from the Nation are of the few men that show up to help .?.?. us address crime and social ills in Southeast. They also run a feeding program in several public housing communities in ward 8."

White likely broke the law with this donation and could be fined.

[Anonymous]

None of this matters. Ward 8 lives people like him.

[Anonymous]

I see the GOP isn’t the only party of candidates who are bigots and commit campaign fraud.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:Well, this will certainly add fuel to the fire:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-lawmaker-under-fire-for-anti-semitism-donated-to-event-where-farrakhan-denounced-jews/2018/04/20/32bbcc60-440c-11e8-bba2-0976a82b05a2_story.html

White made a $500 donation from his constituent services account to a Nation of Islam event at which Louis Farrakhan spoke. Of course, Farrakhan took the opportunity to denounce Jews.

In this article, White defends the Nation of Islam:

"The Brothers from the Nation are of the few men that show up to help .?.?. us address crime and social ills in Southeast. They also run a feeding program in several public housing communities in ward 8."

White likely broke the law with this donation and could be fined.

Agree, this is added fuel to the fire.

To me, this new news begins to reveal a disturbing pattern of White espousing and supporting views of anti-semitism. His "ignorance" argument (excuse) is quickly losing its legs.

White's views about the Jewish community are not shared by the majority of black people. Ward 8 can easily do better.

[jsteele]

Council Members Brianne Nadeau and Mary Cheh have called for the Council to censure Trayon White.

https://twitter.com/AndrewGiambrone/status/987450697233903618

and

https://twitter.com/AndrewGiambrone/status/987453300927877121

[Anonymous]

Why don't they ask him to resign?

[Anonymous]

The council censured the late mayor-for-life. It mattered not.

[Anonymous]

He should be forced to resign (do not know if this is actually possible so forgive MY ignorance).

This guy is a JOKE.

I do not care what he has done for Ward 8. ALL of our council members should be held to higher standards.

[Anonymous]

I have it from a good source that he left the Holecaust museum early bc he feels the Jewish leadership instituted the recent cold spell to punish him.

[jsteele]

Trayon gave a response to the recent controversies today on Facebook Live:

https://www.facebook.com/trayon.white/videos/10100821281203455/

He said that he stayed at the museum the entire time and that is was a lie to report that he left early. He said that he had gone to the museum to learn and then discovered that a reporter had joined the group. He didn't want to have his every move analyzed and reported on, so he and a staffer split off from the group and toured the rest of the museum by themselves.

He defended the donation to the Nation of Islam but said the the doesn't agree with everything Farrakhan on everything.

He said he is not going to resign and not going to back down.

He did a lot of ranting and claimed that the attention is an attempt to prevent him from helping his community.

[Anonymous]

If you don’t want to have your every move analyzed and reported on then you may want to reconsider being a politician.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:Council Members Brianne Nadeau and Mary Cheh have called for the Council to censure Trayon White.

https://twitter.com/AndrewGiambrone/status/987450697233903618

and

https://twitter.com/AndrewGiambrone/status/987453300927877121

How principled! As if a censure has any meaning.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:Trayon gave a response to the recent controversies today on Facebook Live:

https://www.facebook.com/trayon.white/videos/10100821281203455/

He said that he stayed at the museum the entire time and that is was a lie to report that he left early. He said that he had gone to the museum to learn and then discovered that a reporter had joined the group. He didn't want to have his every move analyzed and reported on, so he and a staffer split off from the group and toured the rest of the museum by themselves.

He defended the donation to the Nation of Islam but said the the doesn't agree with everything Farrakhan on everything.

He said he is not going to resign and not going to back down.

He did a lot of ranting and claimed that the attention is an attempt to prevent him from helping his community.

Give him a week or two until he explicitly calls it a Jewish conspiracy against him and his community.

[Anonymous]

He needs to resign or be expelled. Now.

Do people in DC have no morals or backbone?