Your Voice on VIN: by Pinchas Milech.
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Brooklyn, NY – Councilman Al Vann, SHAME ON YOU!! You’re a disgraceful concilmember.
Mr. Vann introduced a bill that would have renamed a Brooklyn street after racist and urban terrorist Sonny Carson.
Since his death in 2002, many New Yorkers may have forgotten just who Sonny Carson was. In 1990, Carson personally led the campaign of boycott and physical intimidation against Korean-owned delis in Brooklyn’s black neighborhoods, marching with signs that read, “Don’t Shop With People Who Don’t Look Like Us.”
In 1991 he hailed the Crown Heights lynch mob that killed Hasidic scholar Yankel Rosenbaum, saying he was “very proud” of what had happened.
He was arrested for murder in 1974 and served 15 months in prison. Carson also was convicted of kidnapping.
Accused of anti-Semitism, he replied: “I’m anti-white – don’t limit my anti’s to one group of people.”
It is interesting to note, that according to his profile at the council’s member web site, Mr. Vann received his Master’s in Education from Yeshiva University.
His Contact Information.
Council Member- District: 36
Albert Vann- Democrat
District Office Address:
613-619 Throop Ave.
Brooklyn, New York 11216
District Office Phone No.: (718) 919-0740
April 17, 2007
Street Fight
From the City Hall Bureau desk of the DN’s Frank Lombardi:
Brooklyn Councilman Charles Barron raised the ghost of famed entertainer Al Jolson this morning in launching a vitriolic attack on Council Speaker Christine Quinn over her opposition to including the name of Sonny Carson in an omnibus bill of dozens of honorary street name “changes.”
Carson, who died in 2002, was a black activist who openly boasted of being anti-white and figured in racially-tinged controversies in the city during the 1970s and 1980s.
Back in the silent-film era, Jolson caused a sensation when the sound of him singing was included in the film, “The Jazz Singer.” He often performed in minstrel black face.
During a press conference this morning on the steps of City Hall, Barron held up a photo of Jolson in black face to contend that Quinn was demonstrating selective outrage about Carson’s inclusion in the street-name bill. He noted that a similar bill containing Jolson’s name was approved recently by the Council and Mayor Bloomberg. (The bill was signed into law by the mayor in December.)
“For the speaker to be saying that we’re going to have a hearing and pull his out, well, why didn’t she pull this man out—Al Jolson, ‘mammy’?” Barron said. “We had mammy, mammy had his name changed, nobody pulled mammy out, Al Jolson, a racist to the bone.” “This is the man who was in the last pack (of names), Where was the speaker then? What is she just going to select it only when black folks that she…has problem with? Where was the speaker for mammy, this is black face, this is minstrel, this is racism.”
Quinn has said she will request that Carson’s name be placed on a separate bill when the street-name bill comes up for a hearing Thursday. Barron said he intends to fight that move and threatened demonstrations and legal action if the speaker goes ahead.
“He’s our hero and you’re not to tell us who we can chose,” he fumed.
AND WHAT’S IT GOT TO DO WITH THIS ISSUE??
anon 12:17,
Huh?
What bill are talking about?
shame on simcha felder for causing so much aggravation for signing on with the rediculous truck route system that is hurting so many yiddin trying to make a honest parnnassah just ask any truck driver
Do any of you remember Al Vann in the late 1960’s with the Ocean Hill Brownville schhol crisis? Considering his statements then, his admiration of Carson isn’t the least surprising.
CARSON IS MUCH MUCH WORSE.
HERE IS A LITTLE.
I AM EMAILING TO SHLOMO MUCH MORE
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Sonny actually served hard time in Sing Sing!!!
The proponent, Mr Vann, Introduced A bill that would have renamed a Brooklyn street after racist and urban terrorist Sonny Carson
OUTRAGEOUS!
CARSON WAS A RACIST, BIGOT AND HARDENED CRIMINAL!!
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He was convicted on the kidnapping charge and spent 15 months in Sing Sing prison.
“… he was the youngest person ever to go to Sing-Sing prison…”
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The Subject – youngest man to go to Sing Sing!
Here are a few gleaned Council email addresses:
DEMAND THAT VANN BE CENSURED FOR EVEN PROPOSING TO HONOR CARSON!
[email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected] ,
[email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected] ,
[email protected] , [email protected] , [email protected] ,
[email protected]
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In the fall of 1968, Sonny Carson and his supporters began establishing local governing boards which “dismissed” white teachers from predominately black schools. Here, teacher Fred Nauman is blocked by demonstrators outside Junior High School 271 in Brooklyn after Nauman and four others were “dismissed.”
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SOONY ON MARTIN LUTHER KING JR:
[He] was beginning to upset me because that philosophy he taught was spreading and it didn’t seem to fit right with me. That “turn the other cheek” business—shee-it. Malcolm, I think, was saying it right: that if someone hit you on one side of your cheek, then you lay him in the grave…
… by Carson’s own admission–he and his group provoked a nasty brawl that landed one policeman in the hospital. (He was struck on the head with a three-foot metal ashtray, then taunted with shouts of “I hope you die.”)
By September, Carson’s gang was illegally entering school buildings and accosting teachers in the halls, telling them among other things, “The Germans did not do a good enough job with you Jews.”
In 1991 he hailed the Crown Heights lynch mob that killed Hasidic
scholar Yankel Rosenbaum, saying he was “very proud” of what had happened.
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In 1991, convicted kidnapper and attempted murderer, Robert “Sonny” Carson, spoke similarly after the black pogrom against orthodox and Chassidic Jews in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, which included the lynching of Yankel Rosenbaum. New York’s black supremacist radio station, WLIB, broadcast Carson saying, “They want me to criticize you, but I’m proud of you.”
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… It is a code that Carson knows well; he has been living by it for more than 25 years. A self-proclaimed “revolutionary,” unabashedly anti-white, he is not only radical in his beliefs, but the tactics he has relied on over the decades–death threats, intimidation, violent confrontations with police
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Workers World Jan. 9, 2003: Sonny Carson
Sonny Carson, an important figure in the Black nationalist movement in New York City, passed away Dec. 20. http://www.workers.org/ww/2003/carson0109.php
http://www.workers.org/ww/2003/carson0109.php
At the same time, YU should be pressured to rescind his graduate degree (if he really has one from them).
my Rebbiem always said going to YU would make you go off the derech, I guess even for shvartzes