Ed Morrissey:

At least Carter-era UN Ambassador and former Mayor Andrew Young didn't call a police officer "sugar tits" when unleashing his bigoted tirade:

The civil rights leader Andrew Young, who was hired by Wal-Mart to improve its public image, resigned from that post last night after telling an African-American newspaper that Jewish, Arab and Korean shop owners had “ripped off” urban communities for years, “selling us stale bread, and bad meat and wilted vegetables.”

In the interview, published yesterday in The Los Angeles Sentinel, a weekly, Mr. Young said that Wal-Mart “should” displace mom-and-pop stores in urban neighborhoods.

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It's unfortunate that Mayor Young decided to perpetuate racial and ethnic stereotypes in his evaluation of urban economics, because he actually has a point. ...

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A Sober Democrat Goes Off On The Jews
Posted by Curt {At Flopping Aces]

Funny thing about this article which describes the tirade Andrew Young (former Atlanta Mayor) went on against Jews & Koreans.  The funny thing is no where in this article does it tell us that Mr. Young is a Democrat.

Do you think the MSM would have omitted that fact if a Republican had said this?

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Contributed by Bill Faith on August 19, 2006 at 01:36 AM in Bill Faith, Dem Dumbness | Permalink

Comments

Posted by: Rurik

Why the surprise? Why the sudden outrage now? Just remember this is the same Andrew Young who, while UN Ambasador in 1979, declared the Ayatollah Khomeini to be "some kind of saint".

Posted by: Rurik | Aug 19, 2006 2:22:32 PM