Young and the Restless
It doesn’t look like an apology is going to get former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young off the hook for saying that Jewish, Korean and Arab store owners have been “overcharging” blacks and selling them “stale bread, and bad meat and wilted vegetables.” The ADL issued a statement calling the statements “offensive, hurtful and shameful” and The New York Sun published an editorial connecting the remarks to Young’s decades-old comments on Israel (ignoring the fact that Young’s recent comments were as anti-Arab as they were anti-Jewish).
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