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Hakeem Jeffries or "All" Men who are Black? Ep 3393B · Challenges of Faith Radio Program

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Challenges of Faith Radio Program. I'm Gary McKeon.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining. Thank you for joining. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about an article that just came
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  Speaker 1: out today, Saturday, here on episode 3393, Be As Embossed In.
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  Speaker 1: And it's referenced to Hakeem Jeffries, the minority leader of
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  Speaker 1: the House of Representatives. But I want to preface it
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  Speaker 1: by saying that it doesn't make a difference when you're
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  Speaker 1: religious or political affiliation or your skin tone. What's in
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  Speaker 1: the heart always comes out. And Matthew 15 and Mark
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  Speaker 1: 7 talks about it. That's the lead-in to what's been reported.
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  Speaker 1: Palestinian journalist Rula Jabrail calls Hakeem Jeffries an AIPAC monkey,
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  Speaker 1: and she claims she didn't mean it in a racist way.
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  Speaker 1: I know you heard what I just said. And she
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  Speaker 1: took heat from black lawmakers yesterday, Friday, after she referred
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  Speaker 1: to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries out of New York
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  Speaker 1: as an AIPAC monkey. She used a racial epithet during
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  Speaker 1: an appearance on lefty commentator Ali's The Left Hook podcast
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  Speaker 1: as she criticized the Black Democrats' support for Israel and
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  Speaker 1: accused them of doing the bidding of the American-Israeli Public
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  Speaker 1: Affairs Committee. She said his name is Hakeem. Hakeem is
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  Speaker 1: an Arabic name which means healer. He's not a healer,
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  Speaker 1: he's a divider. Jabril raged. After Jabril's rant, Ali interjected
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  Speaker 1: to note that using the term monkey has a terrible
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  Speaker 1: racial connotation. But I think you caught yourself and said
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  Speaker 1: you didn't mean it with any racial animosity. Really. Jabril
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  Speaker 1: attempted to clarify. There are three There are these three monkeys,
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  Speaker 1: one I cannot hear, I cannot see, I cannot speak.
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  Speaker 1: It reminds me of these three monkeys. Hmm, interesting. The
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  Speaker 1: Congressional Black Caucus rejected Jabril's defense, as they should have.
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  Speaker 1: To be clear, there isn't a non-racist way to call
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  Speaker 1: Leader Jeffries a black man, a monkey, or errand boy
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  Speaker 1: the group posted on X. Good for them. The caucus
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  Speaker 1: also slammed Al Lee, a critic of Israel's writing. This
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  Speaker 1: is what happens when we hold ourselves to such low
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  Speaker 1: standards for what's allowable in our discourse. People get comfortable
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  Speaker 1: being openly bigoted. We have to stop platforming and trafficking
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  Speaker 1: in anti-black racism, whether it's on the political right or
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  Speaker 1: the left, the CBC added. Good for them. Representative Richie
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  Speaker 1: Torres out of New York similarly argued in an ex-post
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  Speaker 1: that calling a black man a monkey is racist, full stop.
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  Speaker 1: If Ali and Jabril were on the far right, no
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  Speaker 1: one on the far left would have any trouble condemning
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  Speaker 1: them or dehumanizing a black man in racist terms. The
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  Speaker 1: black congressman added, the silence is deafeningly Jabril later issued
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  Speaker 1: a backhanded apology on X. I am disgusted and horrified
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  Speaker 1: that Hakeem Jeffries has taken money from AIPAC amidst Israel's
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  Speaker 1: genocide in Palestine, she wrote. That said, the term that
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  Speaker 1: I used to describe him was inappropriate and offensive and
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  Speaker 1: should never have been used. I apologize unconditionally. And Jeffrey's
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  Speaker 1: office did not immediately respond to the New York Post
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  Speaker 1: request for comment. Well, let me just say that only
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  Speaker 1: she and God knows if her apology was from the
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  Speaker 1: heart or just words. Or just words. They should have
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  Speaker 1: never came out in the first place.