UNFORTUNATE CLARITY:

Barron Staffer: Assassinate Leroy Comrie's Ass (Azi Paybarah, May 30, 2007, NY Observer)

“If it takes an assassination of his ass, he will not be borough president in the borough where I live.”

That was the chief of staff to Charles Barron speaking about another City Council member, Leroy Comrie, who is black and voted to abstain today on a failed proposal today to rename a street after black nationalist Sonny Carson. [...]

Plummer’s “assassination” remark was very much in the tradition of the sort of militant language employed by Carson himself. (“I’m not anti-Semitic, I’m anti-white,” he once said.) Carson's supporters have said that it's unfair to judge his entire life by his most extreme comments.

Of course, you can't be for the street renaming and upset about the comment.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 30, 2007 7:30 PM