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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]I ain't saying it wouldn't be effective I'm just not of the opinion that it's at all plausible cause plain and simply put people in Ward 8 got shit on their list of priorities which need addressing that they have rallied for and raised their voices to get something done about for years (better housing, better schools, better policing, better grocery stores, etc.) [/b]

IIUC the District has spent considerable sums on AH (and Mayor Bowser has committed to big increases) they are spending a lot on schools (which hasn't improved quality much IN public schools IN ward 8, but a lot of Ward 8 kids take advantage of charters, OOB lottery, etc) Council has spent time and dollars on the grocery store issue, including getting a YES Organic Market there, which failed, and then bending over backwards for Walmart, which screwed them over.

Looks like those are big complicated issues. I hope basic decency doesn't have to wait till they are solved  - just as I hope we can cure white nationalism before we have figured out how to solve he social problems of southern W Va.  [/quote]

You understand correctly that things are improving but if you survey some of the folks in Ward 8 you'll find that shit definitely ain't getting done sufficiently and to everybody's liking.  And that's probably going to be the case with this demand for action/accountability regarding this issue of anti-Semitism.  [b]What are the odds that if a few hundred black folks in Ward 8 held some kind of march decrying anti-Semitism and advocating for greater tolerance and cooperation between blacks and Jews, that it would be sufficient and to everybody's liking?[/b]  What are the odds that if every single black resident of Ward 8 personally pledged to visit the Holocaust Museum for one of the First Person 2018 Series events this month that it would be sufficient and to everybody's liking?  Maybe I'm just skeptical but I don't see anything the folks in Ward 8 can do to ease the anxieties of Jewish Washingtonians about anti-Semitism - at least not expeditiously.  Way I see it only thing that may put folks at ease is and promptly is getting rid of Trayon and that's where the Mayor and the council come in.  But, again...I ain't the mack so it ain't my call regarding where to put the responsibility for resolution.  [/quote]

Everybody is a straw man. Sure there are a few who will always have yet higher demands for being "woke" on antisemitism. But it would be sufficient for reasonable people, for 90% of Jews in the District, for Rabbi Herzfeld, for CM Silverman, JCRC, etc, etc.  Plus it would make it a  LOT easier for Mayor Bowser et al to find their courage IF they saw W8 people taking a stand.  Just as the Womens March served to buck up the courage of some Dem congressmen who were looking weak in December 2016. [/quote]
OP here. It would be great if some folks in Ward 8 pushed back against Trayon's acceptance of anti-Semitism (or a least his steadfast refusal to condemn disgusting anti-Semitic remarks), but in all reality, the tone for all this is set at the top - starting with Bowser. That she (along with most Council members) don't even see fit to censure Trayon for his behavior sends a message to Ward 8 folks (and everyone else) that anti-Semitism isn't taken all that seriously in DC. She didn't even have the courage to fire Lopez, hemming and hawing over "what to do.....what to do," until he saved her and just resigned. It was so obvious what she needed to do, but she didn't want to pull the trigger.

On the flip side, I do see your point. Bowser's reluctance IS a direct result of her fear of political fallout from "taking a stand" against anti-Semitism, sad as that it for me to type it out. In a city comprised largely of African Americans, who rightly are concerned with bigotry against them, it's incredible that the mayor herself is afraid of demonstrating, through a censure at least, that bigotry is acceptable in this city - when it's against the Jews.

Just terrible. [/quote]

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