MSDNC’s @Toure takes heat for “power of whiteness” remarks about Holocaust survivors

Toure
MSDNC’s TourΓ©.

Toure is no stranger to controversy – especially on issues like abortion and race, but this time he stooped to even lower lowsΒ (hat tip):

Late last week, MSNBC hostΒ Touré responded to a Twitter userΒ who compared his family’s survival of the Holocaust to African-American’s survival of slavery with this message:

The Simon Wiesenthal Center addressed TourΓ©’s ignorance and bigotry today:

β€œIt’s obviously absurd and smacks of intense and disgusting anti-Semitism. It’s reverse-racism basically,” Efraim Zuroff, Israel office director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center,Β said in a statement to TheBlaze. β€œThere is no question that part of the anti-Semitism that we see has its roots in the form of jealousy. This is a perfect example: β€˜Jews made it because they’re white and Jews.’”

To the TourΓ©s of the world, everything revolves around race – including whether or not you were ‘powerful’ enough as a ‘white person’ to survive, escape, and prosper during and after the Holocaust.

He hasn’t yet addressed the massive backlash surrounding what he said. His “The Cycle” show airs at 3 pm ET weekdays on MSNBC, so perhaps he’ll have a response at the next airing. Stay tuned.

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