An Alabama city councilwoman made a series of outrageous and mostly inaccurate arguments in her attempt to claim a proposal to honor victims of the Holocaust was racist against black people. Sheila Tyson doesnt want the city to pay $45,500 to remove existing buildings on the site of the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center, which has raised about $500,000 to build a memorial park alongside a 9/11 memorial, reported AL.com.
Dead is dead, Tyson argued.
Tyson, who has previously asked the city to pay for repairs at the historically black Shadow Lawn Cemetery, said she didnt understand why the city should help the privately funded memorial project.
Isnt it still for dead people, Tyson said. It is for dead people. Arent the people they are memorializing deceased?
City Attorney Thomas Bentley, whose parents are buried in Shadow Lane, sighed and tried to explain how the black cemetery was a private entity, while the Holocaust memorial expressed the citys remembrance.
Im not sure I have the vocabulary or explanatory power to indicate the distinction although its clear to me from a legal standpoint that there is a distinction, Bentley said.
Tyson then mustered a series of factually inaccurate claims to make her case, noted Birmingham News columnist John Archibald.
She claimed Shadow Lawn, which was purchased in the late 1800s and used as a cemetery in the 1930s, the oldest cemetery in the state but its not even the oldest one in Birmingham.
This is the oldest cemetery in the world, Tyson said. If this isnt a tourist attraction I want to know what is. President Obamas wifes great, great granddaddy is buried out there.
Michelle Obamas great-great grandfather, Carpenter Dolphus Shields, is, in fact, buried at Shadow Lawn.
Whats the difference? Tyson said. I see the difference. I know the difference but I will leave it right there.
Councilwoman Lashunda Scales came to Tysons aid.
I know the difference, Scales said. The difference is the haves and have-nots.
City Council decided to table the issue for another week until the projects developer could answer questions for Tyson and other reluctant officials.
It is meant to teach the community of the consequences of prejudice and hate, said Rebecca Dobrinski, the memorial centers executive director. That is the lesson of the Holocaust. Our goal is to teach the lessons of the Holocaust
so that we do not go down that slippery slope of hate again.
Poster Comment:
Notice that the Jew does NOT attack the porch monkey for denying yet another holohaux memorial. As an aside, what are we up to now, 7 million memorials for 6 million alleged dead kikes?????????