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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Dinkins: Hispanic candidate 'looks more like us'

Posted: 9/12/2010 10:01:51 AM EDT

Dinkins: Hispanic candidate 'looks more like us'

By CANDICE M. GIOVE

Last Updated:
1:37 PM, September 12, 2010

Posted:
12:52 AM, September 12, 2010

EXCLUSIVE

Mayor David Dinkins encouraged voters to embrace a state Senate candidate because he looks "more like us."

"It's
important, it is so very important, particularly for the people of this
district who vote on Tuesday to recognize how important it is to
understand that the city is changing," Dinkins said in his endorsement
of state Senate candidate Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat on Thursday.

"Most people in the city are going to look more like us than others and that's just a fact," Dinkins said.

Espaillat opponent Mark Levine, who is white, yesterday called on Espaillat, who is Hispanic, to denounce the divisive comment.

Espaillat did not repudiate Dinkins' words.

"Mayor Dinkins is
one of New York's finest public servants, and he's built his career
around the principle that communities of different ethnic and economic
backgrounds must work together if we want to bring about long-term
change," Espaillat said in a statement.

Levine, who called Dinkins' comment "insulting to the district and electorate," also took issue with its timing.

"The fact that they were delivered on the first day of Rosh Hashana added to their inappropriateness," Levine said.

Espaillat
and Levine are both frontrunners in the race to fill Attorney General
hopeful state Senator Eric Schneiderman's seat. The district includes
the diverse population of the Upper West Side, Washington Heights, and
Inwood, in Manhattan and Riverdale, in the Bronx.

Posted: 9/12/2010 3:16:30 PM EDT

[#1]

If Limbaugh, or for that matter, anyone else, had stated the Levine "Looks more like us" it wouldn't surprise me to hear about riots and threats of other violence. Let alone the howls of outrage from Jesse and Al and the rest of that ilk.

Double standard? Doesn't count 'cause Dinkin is black. No surprise there.

Don in Ohio

Posted: 9/12/2010 3:20:07 PM EDT

[#2]

Duck Finkins! you know what I mean!!!!

Posted: 9/12/2010 3:21:27 PM EDT

[#3]

Racism.. just gotta love it..

Posted: 9/12/2010 3:21:45 PM EDT

[#4]

I am shocked, shocked to find that a Black Democrat is racist.

Posted: 9/12/2010 3:23:55 PM EDT

[#5]

He was the worst NYC mayor of my lifetime there.

Posted: 9/12/2010 3:24:02 PM EDT

[#6]

I lived in NYC when Dinkins was Mayor. A lot of people voted for him "because he is black", and would "heal racial divisions". He was a disaster.

Posted: 9/12/2010 3:24:36 PM EDT

[#7]

The guy's entire legacy in NYC was building tennis courts

Posted: 9/12/2010 3:25:21 PM EDT

[#8]

Mayor Dinkins is a scumbag.

Posted: 9/12/2010 3:26:21 PM EDT

[#9]

Fuck that racist piece of shit.

Posted: 9/12/2010 3:32:56 PM EDT

[#10]

Queuing "that's racist" GIF...

Posted: 9/12/2010 3:33:55 PM EDT

[#11]

Racism is fine with the powers that be if the one spewing it is black. Don't expect an outraged media firestorm....

Posted: 9/12/2010 4:25:06 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
I lived in NYC when Dinkins was Mayor. A lot of people voted for him "because he is black", and would "heal racial divisions". He was a disaster.

Remember the "Don't Dis Your Sis" campaign he had to try and get ghetto kids to stop sexually assaulting the girls at the city public swimming pools?

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