MSDNC’s @Toure takes heat for “power of whiteness” remarks about Holocaust survivors
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 familyβs survival of the Holocaust to African-Americanβs survival of slavery with this message:
The power of whiteness: RT @hope_and_chains: My family survived a concentration camp, came to the US w/ nothing, LEGALLY, and made it work.
— TourΓ© (@Toure) May 23, 2014
The Simon Wiesenthal Center addressed TourΓ©’s ignorance and bigotry today:
βItβs obviously absurd and smacks of intense and disgusting anti-Semitism. Itβs reverse-racism basically,βΒ Efraim Zuroff, Israel office director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center,Β said in a statement to TheBlaze. βThere 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: βJews made it because theyβre white and Jews.ββ
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.