Ok, this person is stupid and needs to be removed from office

[bluestateguy]

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/alabama-councilwoman-complains-holocaust-memorial-is-racist-because-it-is-for-dead-people/



Alabama councilwoman complains Holocaust memorial is racist because ‘it is for dead people’

An Alabama city councilwoman made a series of outrageous — and mostly inaccurate — arguments in her attempt to claim a proposal to honor victims of the Holocaust was racist against black people.

Sheila Tyson doesn’t want the city to pay $45,500 to remove existing buildings on the site of the Birmingham Holocaust Education Center, which has raised about $500,000 to build a memorial park alongside a 9/11 memorial, reported AL.com.

“Dead is dead,” Tyson argued.

Tyson, who has previously asked the city to pay for repairs at the historically black Shadow Lawn Cemetery, said she didn’t understand why the city should help the privately funded memorial project.

“Isn’t it still for dead people,” Tyson said. “It is for dead people. Aren’t the people they are memorializing deceased?”

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[SheilaT]

1. What a novel concept, that dead people are an identifiable race.

[Hoppy]

2. The more I think about it, she is right. Dead people oughta raise their own damn money for their

own memorials and stop asking for gub'mint handouts. --- they want a memorial, let 'em work for it.

[obamanut2012]

3. How odd, memorials memorialize dead folks

[demmiblue]

4. Not surprised... there has been a lot of anti-Semitism around lately.

I can only imagine what her words would look like on a blog or on a message board.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. "Tyson, who has asked the city to pay for repairs at the historically black Shadow Lawn Cemetery"

where I assume dead people were lying around??????