Anti-Semitism in Washington D.C.

This man is a member of the District of Columbia City Council. You would expect that respectable government officials would have some command over the English language. You would expect that they would comport themselves with dignity. You would not expect that they would be promoting the anti-Semitic notion that Jews control the weather. If so you would be wrong.

The Washington Post has the story:

A D.C. lawmaker responded to a brief snowfall Friday by publishing a video in which he espoused a conspiracy theory that Jewish financiers control the weather.

D.C. Council member Trayon White Sr. (D-Ward 8) posted the video to his official Facebook page at 7:21 a.m. as snow flurries were hitting the nation’s capital. The video, shot through the windshield of a car driving west on Interstate 695 through downtown Washington, shows snowy skies while White narrates.

“Man, it just started snowing out of nowhere this morning, man. Y’all better pay attention to this climate control, man, this climate manipulation,” he says. “And D.C. keep talking about, ‘We a resilient city.’ And that’s a model based off the Rothschilds controlling the climate to create natural disasters they can pay for to own the cities, man. Be careful.”

So, you take a little climate change mania and add a bit of Louis Farrakhan and you get Trayon White’s anti-Semitic rant. 

When first called out on it, White refused to apologize:

In a series of text messages, he confirmed the voice in the video is his but expressed surprise that his remarks might be construed as anti-Semitic. Asked to clarify what he meant, he wrote, “The video says what it says.”

He did not understand that he was trafficking in anti-Semitism. Huh? Lucky he was not a Republican. He would quickly have been run out of town on a rail.

In time, White did apologize. He took down the video. And yet, shouldn’t he resign his office in disgrace? An apology that is not accompanied by a self-inflicted penalty is not sincere.