Democrat Intolerance

Andrew Young, one of the "heirs" of the civil rights movement and former young stars of the Democrat party, from the Jimmy Carter era, has revealed his core bigotry. Sun Times:

In the Sentinel interview, Young was asked about whether he was concerned Wal-Mart causes smaller, mom-and-pop stores to close.

"Well, I think they should; they ran the 'mom and pop' stores out of my neighborhood," the paper quoted Young as saying. "But you see, those are the people who have been overcharging us, selling us stale bread and bad meat and wilted vegetables. And they sold out and moved to Florida. I think they've ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans and now it's Arabs; very few black people own these stores."

Wal-Mart is a side issue here, but why should these intolerant remarks be any surprise to anyone? For years the Democrat party has pushed racial quotas and policies that judge people by the color of their skin, not the content of their character.

And this kind of remark is not unusual among these "progressive" politicians---remember Jesse Jackson and "Hymietown" and the shocking behavior of Al Sharpton, now a mainstream Democrat, who incited a lynch mob to kill a visiting rabbinical student, another mob to burn and loot a "Jew store" and a third which partially paralyzed a Korean shopkeeper. A recent case in point in Illinois were the anti-Semitic remarks by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and the refusal to repudiate them by one of his top deputies, a member of Governor Blagojevich's Hate Crime Commission. The Governor also refused to ask for her resignation.

The Democrat party has harbored anti-Semitism for years. The only wonder is why so many within the party still tolerate this. But I guess when you're a liberal, not used to judging yourself, it's easy to tolerate intolerance.